America Quote by Bettany Hughes

Iran, in its former incarnation as Persia, created the world's first empire, produced titanic figures like Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, and is one of…

— Stephen Kinzer

Persia is very different from the Arab Middle East in terms of architecture and language. Even though we think of them as one big…

— Ben Affleck

In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of North America…

— Robert Burchfield

In the beginning, all the world was America.

— John Locke

I began to understand that 'America' in reality belonged to the whole world and not just to Americans. The idea of America had already…

— Sergio Leone

America is our continent. You feel in the daily language that Americans use the word "America" to erase the rest of the continent from…

— Alfredo Jaar

The truth is that there wasn't much competition. There was the East and the West, but there was really no West before us. We…

— DJ Yella

Was America really founded on Middle Eastern lies, and if it was, isn't it about time it was refounded on Western science fact?

— Steve Fowler

Few Iranians these days go through the fiction of calling themselves 'Persian.' Calling yourself Persian is a way of distancing themselves from Iran.

— Reza Aslan

If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose . . . the fact that they were the people…

— Ayn Rand

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

— Robert D. Kaplan

In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance.

— Paul Goodman