Balance Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

America has entered a great struggle that tests our strength, and even more our resolve. Our nation is patient and steadfast. We continue to…

— George W. Bush

Optimism is America's birthright.... There is no social problem Americans dare not attack. No problem, that is, except one: about marriage, and marriage alone,…

— Maggie Gallagher

Optimism - even, and perhaps especially in the face of difficulty - has long been an American hallmark.

— Pamela Druckerman

Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive to draw…

— B. C. Forbes

“The consistent optimism of our liberal culture has prevented modern democratic societies both from gauging the perils of freedom accurately and from appreciating democracy…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a relentless, questioning, hopeful people.

— William J. Clinton

“Cultural pessimism is always fashionable, and since we are human, there are always grounds for it. It has the negative consequence of depressing the…

— Marilynne Robinson

There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of justice, and…

— Woodrow Wilson

But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too…

— John F. Kennedy

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

The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.

— Chaka Fattah

These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.

— bell hooks