Quote by Eric Metaxas

“America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy. ”

— Don DeLillo

“The national government belongs to the whole American people,”

— Charles A. Beard

“We are a nation that has a government--not the other way around.”

— Ronald Reagan

“The United States is no longer a nation that has a government. It is now a government that has a nation.”

— David Ellsworth

“that the whole nation, tired of war, actually only longed for order, quiet, and a little security and bourgeois life. And, secretly it hated…

— Stefan Zweig

“THE PRESIDENT IS NOT AMERICA. HIS CABINET IS NOT AMERICA . . . WE ARE AMERICA. AND WE ARE HERE TO STAY.”

— The Women's March Organizers

“Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality, for how we live is so far…

— Anonymous

“America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many.”

— Ralph Ellison

“We the people are the United States of America. Not the military, not Washington, DC, not the president, not the Congress. They all work…

— Mike Foster

“But this republic idea sounds like an improvement over our current”

— Suzanne Collins

“I realized that it was precisely because of America’s glaring imperfections that I should seek to participate in its progress, carve a place in…

— Eboo Patel

“To [the government] it didn't matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong.”

— Isaac Asimov