America Quote by Herman Melville

The West - the very words go straight to that place of the heart where Americans feel the spirit of pride in their western…

— John Wayne

We recognize ourselves in Westerns, ... I believe the Western can orchestrate moments around reality. The reality can be as entertaining to us as…

— Kevin Costner

“The West withers every non-Western soul that touches it.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

In the West, the spirit is separate from the body. In the East these are things that are very real and concrete.

— Li Hongzhi

The spirit of America is a spirit of heroism: risking for others even if the ante is your life, never being broken no matter…

— Brian Mast

I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

— Kiefer Sutherland

The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction,…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

It is during difficult times like this that the true American spirit reveals itself. I am not talking only of the response of local,…

— Jo Bonner

The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

— Ameen Rihani

There's something very truthful about American brutality, spirit and myth-making that is so present in the great westerns.

— Fred Hechinger

The American spirit is stronger than stone and mortar, tougher than steel and glass, and more enduring than any pain or suffering that can…

— Olympia Snowe

“secular, pluralistic, Western culture? There are several other “pressure points” at which our culture in the West is vulnerable to challenge. Western culture longs…

— Timothy Keller