American People
See also: America
Proud to be an American
If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on earth, it was because here in this land we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before. Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. Ronald Reagan
If I were asked...to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women Alexis de Tocqueville
What charms me [in America] is that all citizens are bretheren Marquis de Lafayette
Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism Ralph Waldo Emerson
After all, the chief business of the American people is business Calvin Coolidge
America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another Richard M. Nixon
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people Walt Whitman
It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a People always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence George Washington
Although the desire of acquiring the good things of this world is the prevailing passion of the American people, certain monumentary outbreaks occur when their souls seem suddenly to burst the bonds of matter by which they are restrained and to soar impetuously towards heaven. Alexis de Tocqueville
The American people taken in main is not only the most enlightened in the world, but - which I put much higher than that advantage - is the one whose practical political education is the most advanced Alexis de Tocqueville