Favorite Quotations
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America
What's So Great About America
It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the one place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time. ~ Thomas Wolfe America is the only idealistic nation in the world. ~ Woodrow Wilson Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. ~ Jacques Barzun A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes. So that's why we can't get anything done in the morning-- We're government workers. ~ Jay Leno America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America. ~ Jimmy Carter The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning. ~ Willie Dixon We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt You can trust the Americans to do the right thing, after they have tried every other alternative. ~ Winston Churchill Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night? ~ Jack Kerouac I stand before you to proclaim tonight: America is the land where dreams can come true for all of us. ~ Geraldine Ferraro
"May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right." ~ John Quincy Adams