Able Quote by George Washington

“America had, I believe, a divine founding. Call it American exceptionalism if you like. But that makes America all the more vulnerable to God's…

— Fleming Rutledge

Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in…

— Thomas Jefferson

“What manner of men had lived in those days...who had so eagerly surrendered their sovereignty for a lie and a delusion? Why had they…

— Taylor Caldwell

It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.

— Anonymous

Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government.

— Mitt Romney

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and…

— Louis D. Brandeis

Four Americans, four patriots, they loved this country and they chose to serve it, and served it well. They had a mission and they…

— Barack Obama

... Sometimes, we try to stifle that fact or hide it, ... But the profound, and ultimately most important, reality is that we are…

— Joe Lieberman

To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The American Revolution represented the informed and mature convictions of a great mass of independent, liberty-loving, God-fearing people who knew their rights, and possessed…

— Calvin Coolidge

The heritage of the American Revolution is forgotten, and the American government, for better and for worse, has entered into theheritage of Europe as…

— Hannah Arendt

Gone is any mention of American exceptionalism. I happen to believe that twice, three times in the 20th century, the United States saved Western…

— Mark Shields