Collapse Quote by Irving Babbitt

The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“America was born out of despair & we'll all go through it in our lifetime. It's what we do with it that will help…

— Timothy Pina

Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have…

— Thurgood Marshall

It's easy to deprecate some of the puffery and jingoism that often go with affirmations of 'American greatness.' It's also easy to confuse greatness…

— Bret Stephens

The signal instances of Providential goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success demand from us…

— George Washington

To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather than governmental.…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a…

— H. L. Mencken

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our…

— Barack Obama

“Currently we see around us an ever more apparent loss of vigor of our society: increasing fixity of the power structure and bureaucratization of…

— Robert Zubrin

America has the highest standard of living of any major country in the entire world. To maintain and enhance that standard of living, America…

— Alex Tabarrok

“A good newspaper is never good enough, but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.”

— Garrison Keillor

“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. In the history of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear tame and…

— Walt Whitman