Americans Quote by James Baldwin

The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

— James A. Baldwin

“Americans... are the most idealistic people in the whole world. Their only danger is that the idealist can easily become the idolator.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“We’re all the same. We all have the means to save ourselves and carry ourselves home.”

— T.A. Miles

“Let's get real about the ideal. It sucks. It doesn't represent us, and it doesn't even try to. It refuses to acknowledge that people…

— Megan Jayne Crabbe

“America belongs to all who live here and call her home; of every color and background; that is central to what makes America great.…

— Leland Lewis

“One cannot be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“You always dread the unfamiliar...We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each…

— Ray Bradbury

“I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great…

— Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“It follows that the more people we take to be our equals and compare ourselves to, the more people there will be to envy.”

— Alain de Botton

“I can never be anything else but an American, and I must think of the United States first, and when I think of the…

— Henry Cabot Lodge

“it is only in the ideal or perfect state that the virtues of the good citizen and the good man are identical.”

— Seneca

“We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone MADE equal. Each man man the image…

— Ray Bradbury