Allegiance Quote by Tom Tancredo

Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat…

— Jerry Brown

The essence of what it is to be American is the deep moral urge to be free, to freely express yourself and have the…

— Steven Spielberg

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.

— Max Lerner

Americans continue to rapidly homogenize ourselves into a neutered oblivion. For a country founded on the protection of the unique, we relish our sameness.

— Lewis Black

As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together.

— Barack Obama

Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed…

— Barack Obama

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

— John F. Kennedy

Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other…

— Herbert Hoover

We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little idea of…

— Tom Freston

America is a country of immigrants. It's what makes America unique.

— Ivo Daalder

“The essence of America – that which really unites us — is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea —…

— Condoleezza Rice

We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.

— Frederick Douglass