America Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.

— John Lydon

In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance.

— Paul Goodman

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

— George Santayana

Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing--after exhausting every other possible alternative.

— Winston Churchill

Americans are hard working, innovative, proud people who want bad government policies and high taxes to get out of the way so they can…

— Tim Walberg

Americans as no one else in the Old World are looking ahead and are future-minded without the limitations of traditions and can look ahead…

— Jürgen Moltmann

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly…

— Joan Didion

Americans are wonderfully courteous to strangers, yet indiscriminately shoot kids in schools. They believe they are masters of the world, yet know nothing about…

— Brian Reade

You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also…

— Harold Macmillan

America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human being—confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-oriented—is a vast…

— Dinesh D'Souza

Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we're often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by…

— Marianne Williamson

We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson