America Quote by John Adams

“All the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arise, not from want of honor or virtue, but from the downright ignorance of the nature…

— John Adams

“Identifying the flaw in the US philosophical roots requires that we move beyond the intellectual and emotional climate in which the Constitution was conceived…

— David E. Wilkins

Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders of the…

— Joe Conason

The yearning for the common good comes from the refusal to accept that perhaps Americans have very little in common apart from the elements…

— Simon Critchley

The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many,…

— Gary Oldman

Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

— Ramsey Clark

Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.

— George Washington

It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the government have too much power or too little power…

— James Madison

One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that it causes…

— James F. Cooper

America comes from a flawed but wonderful idea. Many great things have sprung forth over the past few hundred years but there were deep…

— Peter Buffett