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America Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
- America means opportunity, freedom, power.
- We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed…
- In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
- America is a country of young men.
- In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.
- By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard…
- Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.
- Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.
- A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America,…
- America is another name for opportunity.
- America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.
More America Quotes
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending… — Bashar al-Assad
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon