America Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the day is…

— Richard Rodriguez

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

— Theodore Roosevelt

But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or…

— Thomas Day

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihoodthe virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

— Paul Tsongas

It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with…

— Herbert Hoover

Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions,…

— James A. Baldwin

A single word indicative of doubt, that any thing, or every thing, in that country is not the very best in the world, produces…

— Frances Trollope

We're constantly told that all cultures are equal, and that every belief system is as good as the next. And it led to a…

— Frank Miller

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

— Mason Cooley

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