Accounts Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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

— Samuel Eliot Morison

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my…

— America Ferrera

I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set aside as…

— Ronald Reagan

I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is the West.

— Philipp Meyer

America is a place of many great events. Here is where Adam dwelt, where the Garden of Eden was located. America was the place…

— Ezra Taft Benson

America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,-a land…

— Francis Parkman

America has not been a story or a byword. That small community of Pilgrims prospered and, driven by the dreams and, yes, by the…

— Ronald Reagan

Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about them. We watch their films,…

— Wilma Mankiller

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, 'Ours.'

— Anonymous

America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the…

— Samuel Eliot Morison

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

— Oscar Wilde

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.

— Vine Deloria Jr