America Quote by Louis Agassiz

While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live only…

— Henry David Thoreau

In the beginning, all the world was America.

— John Locke

America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she was a…

— Ronald Wright

When America was first made known to Europe, the part assumed by France on the borders of that new world was peculiar, and is…

— Francis Parkman

I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it…

— Jacques Maritain

But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own…

— Marco Rubio

The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from…

— Lewis Mumford

Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient Atalantis [sic]…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.

— Robert Frost

America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.

— Samuel Eliot Morison

Have we even so much as discovered and settled the shores? Let a man travel on foot along the coastand tell me if it…

— Henry David Thoreau

America has been the New World in all tongues, to all peoples, not because this continent was a new-found land, but because all those…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt