Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people…

And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up…

— Jack Kerouac

For unknown reasons, there is a tremendous concentration of psychoactive plants on the South American continent. The South American continent has more known hallucinogens…

— Terence McKenna

Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest corner. I…

— Jack Kerouac

In the beginning, after this earth was prepared for man, the Lord commenced his work upon what is now called the American continent, where…

— Brigham Young

The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.

— Chester A. Arthur

“Bay pointed out that even the street design in Government Center in Washington DC:   …has been cunningly laid out in such a manner…

— Thomas Horn

But unless some great revolution in nature modifies the present relative level between land and sea, it may safely be maintained that the present…

— Louis Agassiz

The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced,…

— James A. Baldwin

“After arriving in America, John and Adeline continued on their tour of American Universities, leaving their daughter Ursula in the New York City area,…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise

“It was widely known that Thomas Jefferson coveted all of North America for the United States. When the war started, he wrote to a…

— Anonymous

In what region of the earth ever so remote from us, in what corner of creation ever so far out of the range of…

— Robert Charles Winthrop

Developments since the rise of National Socialism make it probable that the continent will be freed from its Jewish destroyers of people and exploiters…

— Julius Streicher

Some labeled Jerry Falwell an American version of the Ayatollah Khomeni. People for the American Way, a group organized to counter the Moral Majority,…

— Charles Colson

There are no words to express the extraordinary strength and character of this breed of people we call American. They are the kind of…

— Ronald Reagan

I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries…

— Don DeLillo