America Quote by Jonathan Raban

“The myth of America’s religious founding thus provided an explanation for those who needed to sanctify the past before they could go forward with…

— Steven K. Green

I've always believed that this blessed land was set apart in a special way, that some divine plan placed this great continent here between…

— Ronald Reagan

To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“At the heart of this story, I think, is a simple, abiding belief: it is possible to live wisely on the land, and to…

— Barry López

“A person has to ignore the larger social, economic, political, and religious climate of early North American colonialism to advance the Christian nation myth.”

— David D. Flowers

“America had, I believe, a divine founding. Call it American exceptionalism if you like. But that makes America all the more vulnerable to God's…

— Fleming Rutledge

“The land is vast. Soon enough, our people abandoned us, remembered us only as creatures of the old land, as things that had not…

— Neil Gaiman

“Acknowledging that all our land was stolen from Native people feels like too great a burden, so we create an alternative reality that allows…

— Daniel Hill

To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.

— William Least Heat-Moon

I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set aside as…

— Ronald Reagan

I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me.

— Bharati Mukherjee

“A myth can be picked up by a whole society, believed and taught to the next generation. Gods, fairies, witches—believing a thing doesn’t make…

— Philip K. Dick