America Quote by Thomas Pynchon

The truth is that the materialistic paternalism of the present day, if allowed to go on unchecked, will rapidly make of America one huge…

— John Gresham Machen

“Not that there wasn't still plenty of subduing to do here in North America. "Even within our own limits, the savage still lights his…

— Sarah Vowell

This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is…

— Artur Davis

If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of…

— George Will

We who are crushed to earth with heavy chains, who travel a weary, rugged, thorny road, groping through midnight darkness on earth, earn our…

— Elizabeth Keckley

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the…

— Robert Toombs

There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such…

— Norman Mailer

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants…

— Langston Hughes

There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be; There are no hearts like English hearts, Such hearts of oak as…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs with sensible…

— Matt Taibbi

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many.…

— Ralph Ellison