Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is Americans.Thomas Paine, 1782

The great strength of America is our people. If you want to know what is the defining strength of America, it is our people, our immigrant tradition, our bringing in cultures from all over the world.Colin Powell, 2010

I’m nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. America is where great things are possible.Elon Musk, 2005

America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1862

You cannot bet against America and win. We've got the greatest engine ever devised. And it's just beginning.Warren Buffett, 2009

I got my story, my dream, from America.Jack Ma, 2014

America is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.Thomas Wolfe, 1935

Dreams are the foundation of America.Lupita Nyong'o, 2018

I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.Yves Saint Laurent, 1973

America has the best hand ever dealt of any country on the planet, ever.Jamie Dimon, 2015

I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2004

Some may disagree, but I believe that America is exceptional. America is the sole superpower in the world. We remain the one indispensable nation.Barack Obama, 2013

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom ‘to’ and freedom ‘from’.Marilyn vos Savant, 1993

I would have never had the kinds of opportunities I’ve had here in the Soviet Union, or even in Russia today.Sergey Brin, 2009

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, 'You're better than the Cassius of old.'Muhammad Ali, 1960

America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.Elon Musk, 2017

America is a tune. It must be sung together.Gerald Stanley Lee, 1917

The essence of America—that which really unites us—is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion—it is an idea—and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.Condoleezza Rice, 2006

Laughter is America's most important export.Walt Disney, 1954

America has constantly been on the side of what’s right — it is one of the greatest ideas in human history.Bono, 2012

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.Bob Dylan, 1966

If it weren't for this country, I'd still be on the streets of Queens. What other country can you do this in?Carl Icahn, 2014

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2004

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.John F. Kennedy, 1963

From the earliest days of our founding, America has been the story of ordinary people who dare to dream.Barack Obama, 2011

America is best when we come together with clear leadership, expertise, and the political will to take on difficult challenges and get things done. No one should ever doubt the strength and resilience of our country and our democracy.Jamie Dimon, 2016

The genius of the American people is self-reliance.Henry Ford, 1925

We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.Calvin Coolidge, 1931

The American dream is alive and well. It doesn't matter where you live in this country, you can start a business and you can be successful.Mark Cuban, 2018

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.Mark Twain, 1906

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.Harry Truman, 1945

I didn’t come from privilege. I’ve said before and I mean this — this is the only country on Earth where my story is possible.Barack Obama, 2004

America is the land of opportunity – there is no other country where I could have done this.Elon Musk, 2020

In America, nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.Amy Tan, 1998

My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.Buzz Aldrin, 2007

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.Bill Clinton, 1993

There is a reason the world always looks to America. Your great dream: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness inspires us all.Julia Gillard, 2011

I am an American; free born and free bred where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.Teddy Roosevelt, 1897

America is an ideal, and that ideal is freedom for everybody.Oprah Winfery, 2019

I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it’s marked by the blood of those who died defending it.Ronald Reagan, 1987

The American flag is a symbol of hope and inspiration to people all over the world. It is a reminder that freedom is not free, and that we must always be vigilant in defending it.Ronald Reagan, 1987

Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We make history.John McCain, 2018

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do something about them.Henry Ford II, 1976

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.Frederick Douglass, 1852

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.Buzz Aldrin, 2014

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.James Baldwin, 1955

I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there, because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.Martin Luther King, Jr., 1968

The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933

For America, our interests are our values, and our values are our interests.John McCain, 2008

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.Paul Tsongas, 1991

I remain convinced nothing can stop America — the American miracle is magic.Warren Buffett, 2020

Americans are known for their strength, fortitude, and generosity in times of need. We encourage people in the U.S. and everywhere to give with their hearts, reach out to these victims, and donate what they can to the relief efforts.Michael Dell, 2005

With every friendship you make and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world.Michelle Obama, 2011

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.Madeleine Albright, 1997

People in power are trying to convince us that the villain in our American story is each other. But that is not our story. That is not who we are. That's not our America. Our United States of America is not about us versus them. It's about We the people!Kamala Harris, 2020

We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their plows but to secure liberty for their souls.Robert J. McCracken, 1943

My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America.Val Saintsbury, 2016

I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.Shirley Chisholm, 1972

If there is a national, secular religion in the United States, it is the belief that America is the Land of Opportunity, that we are a meritocracy, that any kid, no matter who they are, or where they come from, can work hard and move up in the world: that their effort matters.Caterina Fake, 2013

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835

America was the first country in the world to be founded on the principle of the complete equality of all human beings, without regard to race, color, creed, or national origin.Thomas Jefferson, 1785

America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.Adlai Stevenson, 1952

What does the flag mean? It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as the man whose people have been here generations.Henry Cabot Lodge, 1905

The happiness of America is intimately connected with the happiness of all mankind; she is destined to become the safe and venerable asylum of virtue, of honesty, of tolerance, and quality and of peaceful liberty.Marquis de Lafayette, 1777

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people.Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2013

Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American dream. That’s the greatness of this country.Ronald Reagan, 1986

One cannot be an American by going about saying that one is American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America, and then work.Georgia O'Keeffe, 1939

The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred.Adrian Cronauer, 2005

America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.Henry Ford, 1943

America is full of success stories featuring victories by the underdog.Mike Gallagher, 2012

If you take advantage of everything America has to offer, there’s nothing you can’t accomplish.Geraldine Ferraro, 1984

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.Sinclair Lewis, 1935

May I never wake up from the American dream.James Weldon Johnson, 1920

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.Calvin Coolidge, 1930

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.Kurt Vonnegut, 1963

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.George W. Bush, 2002

The thing that impresses me most about this country is its hopefulness.Aldous Huxley, 1927

The map of America is a map of endlessness, of opening out, of forever and ever. No man’s face would make you think of it but his hope might, his courage might.Archibald MacLeish, 1961

The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had existed; it was defined before it existed.Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1908

Of all the countries in the world, America is that in which the spread of ideas and of human industry is the most continual and most rapid.Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835

The American dream is that anyone, regardless of where he was born or what his parents were, can attain success in a society where upward mobility is possible for everyone.H.L. Mencken, 1923

I started with nothing and have lived the American dream.Jeff Greene, 2015

The American invents as the Greek sculpted and the Italian painted. It is genius for the practical and a love of novelty.Claude Fyot de la Marche, 1835

The genius of American businessmen has developed the wealth of the nation and created the highest standard of employment of any country in the world.Henry Ford, 1925

Each civilization has a defining attribute: Greece in its origination, Rome in its duration, England in its magnitude, America in its progress.Will Durant, 1935

The mother lode of opportunities runs through America.Warren Buffett, 2015

American culture is a victory culture.Tom Engelhardt, 1995

America leads. We are the indispensable nation. We have capacity no one else has. Our military is the best in the history of the world. And when trouble comes up anywhere in the world, they don't call Beijing. They don't call Moscow. They call us.Barack Obama, 2014

Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time.George Patton, 1943

Americans are not built to play tentatively – to allow another team to be the aggressor.Jürgen Klinsmann, 2014

People have been betting against America for 200 years, and they all wound up losing money.William Greider, 1992

I suspect my life would have turned out very differently had we stayed in Germany.Peter Thiel, 2014

I think the American dream just means anything is possible for anyone—no matter how crazy your dream seems.Iggy Azalea, 2013

The American dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.James Truslow Adams, 1931

America is a land of wonders in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835

There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America.Eric Ries, 2010

The wonderful thing about it is in this country, is you can succeed magnificently with ethics.Warren Buffett, 2006

What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind. America did not tell the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who -- with their hands, their intelligence and their heart -- built the greatest nation in the world: ‘Come, and everything will be given to you.’ She said: ‘Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent.Nicolas Sarkozy, 2007

America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can’t be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on independent thinking, a steady immigration of new minds, a risk-taking culture with no stigma attached to trying and failing, a noncorrupt bureaucracy, and financial markets and a venture capital system that are unrivaled at taking new ideas and turning them into global products.Thomas Friedman, 2004

No matter how crazy America can be at times, no matter how off-based America can appear, America is still the best deal out there. This is the best country in the whole wide world. I ain't going nowhere else.Steve Harvey, 2010

America is still the most fertile ground for innovation because we have rebellious and curious people. We have an entrepreneurial spirit, a tolerance for risk and failure.Walter Isaacson, 2014

Let the best man win, whoever he is. Let the best man win! That is America's word.Owen Wister, 1900

America is the greatest force for good of any country that's ever been. There would not be democracy in the world if not for the United States.Elon Musk, 2007

I won the lottery the day I was born in America.Ben Carson, 2016

I asked for a few Americans, they brought with them the courage of a whole Army.Abdul Rashid Dostum, 2001

I was drawn to America because I felt like an outsider in my own country…I cried when I got it, a visa meant more to me than my own label deal.Iggy Azalea, 2013

How small ambitious Caesar seems beside the hero of America!James Russell Lowell, 1865

We can bring somebody in as a waiter and make them president of the company, that's just the way America is supposed to work.Bill Marriott, 2014

The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.Woodrow Wilson, 1918

I’m proud of the U.S.A. We’ve done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor.Shaun White, 2010

That piece of red, white, and blue bunting means five thousand years of struggle upwards. It is the full-grown flower of ages of fighting for liberty. It is the century plant of human hope in bloom.Alvin Owsley, 1923