America Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Have we even so much as discovered and settled the shores? Let a man travel on foot along the coastand tell me if it…

— Henry David Thoreau

America, so far as her physical history is concerned, has been falsely denominated the New World. Hers was the first dry land lifted out…

— Louis Agassiz

America and the world have been great beneficiaries of the forward presence of the United States Navy around the globe since the end of…

— Robert C. O'Brien

Whether in peaceful trade or warlike attack, the sea unites more than it divides. Even if it were possible to treat England, or the…

— Nicholas Rodger

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but…

— Robert D. Kaplan

The United States, therefore, works to ensure that any actions we take are consistent with international laws and norms - including those reflected in…

— Barack Obama

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

“When, in the fifteenth century, some audacious mariners who had sailed from Europe discovered America, nothing seemed to justify such a venture in the…

— Pierre Boulle

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I began to understand that 'America' in reality belonged to the whole world and not just to Americans. The idea of America had already…

— Sergio Leone

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few…

— William Labov

America is our continent. You feel in the daily language that Americans use the word "America" to erase the rest of the continent from…

— Alfredo Jaar