America Quote by Ronald Wright

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.

— Herbert Croly

The Woman had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as a sentiment but as a force; why was she…

— Henry Adams

America, so far as her physical history is concerned, has been falsely denominated the New World. Hers was the first dry land lifted out…

— Louis Agassiz

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

The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe finds his…

— James Fenimore Cooper

America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,-a land…

— Francis Parkman

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

But the whole history of America is quite different from Europe. People went there to get away from the intolerance and constraints of life…

— Margaret Thatcher

The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.

— W. L. George

The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is…

— Barbara Cartland