God Bless America

I love America. I love that I can hate things about it, speak about it and write about it without getting in trouble, thrown in jail or beheaded.  So, in honor of its 231^st Birthday I’m happy to share these thoughts about the best country ever won. Have a blast!

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. -- Bill Clinton (1946 - )

There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious.  -- Bono (1960 - ), Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.  -- Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)

The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth. 

Charles Luckman

 

America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world. 

Dinesh D'Souza

 

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure. 

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969) 

 

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself. 

Georg W. Hegel (1770 - 1831) 

 

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens. 

George W. Bush (1946 - ), Inaugural address, 2001

 

America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders. 

George W. Bush (1946 - )

 

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

Jimmy Carter (1924 - )

 

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. 

John Adams (1735 - 1826) 

 

I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear. 

John Kerry (1943 - )

 

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. 

John Updike

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