America Quote by Edith Wharton

It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

— Oscar Wilde

When America has been discovered in America it will be discovered in Europe. They are looking for America now.

— Gerald Stanley Lee

The reality is when you make 'America First' a bumper sticker and pump it overseas, what you're telling them is 'America Only'.

— Stanley A. McChrystal

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it has merely been detected.

— Oscar Wilde

It was wonderful to find America; But it would have been better if we did'nt.

— Winston Churchill

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

— Will Rogers

America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.

— Samuel Eliot Morison

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 not just a country, it's an idea.

— Edward de Bono

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see.

— Andy Warhol

This is the America we know because we built it.

— Mia Love

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

— Mark Twain