American Quote by Harry S Truman

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.

— Herb Ritts

Being an American is an action; it's an ideal to strive for. It's being part of this constantly perfecting union that, with each generation,…

— Sarah McBride

Being an American is something we need to learn and understand.

— Eric Metaxas

To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.

— Robert Penn Warren

When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience…

— Dinaw Mengestu

My parents are not American.

— Dorit Kemsley

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

— George Santayana

“An American is a man who is greater in his soul than in his class, creed, political party, or the section in which he…

— David Barton

I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.

— Ana Castillo

I am a proud American, regardless of the fact that my parents were separated from me forcefully.

— Diane Guerrero

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we…

— Leslie Fiedler

Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.

— Theodore Roosevelt