America Quote by Norman Mailer

What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.

— Karl Jaspers

We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.

— Learned Hand

Most of us cherish freedom, but when we actually get the opportunity to make our own way it can be terrifying.

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening. We live in a true…

— Germaine Greer

America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“Fear is not the American way, I remind my children. So although I feel America's fear, and on some days even share its contempt…

— Ranya Tabari Idliby

America is beyond power; it acts as in a dream, as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom, and wherever America…

— John Updike

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

— Shirley Hazzard

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.

— Rand Paul

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are…

— Tariq Ramadan

The America we all know has been a story of the many becoming one, uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the greatest economy…

— Mitt Romney