America Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare America Europe Forests History Torches
The torch America carries is one of decency and hope. It is not America's torch alone. But it is America's duty - and honor… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees. — Faith Baldwin Copy Share Image
The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going to go on growing-in… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
When Franklin drew the lightning from the clouds, he little dreamed that in the evolution of science his discovery would illuminate the torch of… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Europe is not a bright spot; it's all tangled up in its knickers with all that regulation. — Bobby Miller Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that if we had been victorious on the Vistula, the revolutionary fires would have reached the entire continent. — Mikhail Tukhachevsky Copy Share Image
America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! — Israel Zangwill Copy Share
The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. — John Muir Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image