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America Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
- The words of the Declaration of Independence, as given effect by Washington...are to be accepted as real, and not as empty phrases...that in very truth…
- Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands on a continent…
- There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.
- But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with…
- A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal;…
- All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.
- The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American
- The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman. The…
- The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
- And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the world know that…
- Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to…
- Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.
- Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihoodthe virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price,…
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