Quotes on Usa

A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

Two months ago I had a nice apartment in Chicago. I had a good job. I had a son. When something happened to the Negroes in the South I said, `That's their business, not mine.' Now I know how wrong. I was. The murder of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us, anywhere in the world, had better be the business of us all.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.

One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.

For the mission's sake, our country's sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division's colors in the past battles - who fought for life and never lost their nerve - carry out your mission and keep your honor clean. Demonstrate to the world there is "No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy" than a U.S. Marine.

We've backed off in good faith to try and give you a chance to straighten this problem out. But I am going to beg with you for a minute. I'm going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.

We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.

I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models.

I'm ready to lose my life if that's what Portugal needs to win. I'll play vs USA even if I play with one leg.

America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.