Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

I have never lost faith in America's essential goodness and greatness.

America has much greatness left in her.

The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great.

Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.

America's greatness rests on far more than the power of our arms. Our greatness is also measured by our goodness, it's in the capacity of our minds, of our hearts, and it's in the strength of our democracy.

I will work every single day to make sure that America continues to be the greatest nation on earth.

American patriotism is now jingoism. American Greatness is made fun of. The concept of "Make America Great Again" or American exceptionalism is lampooned. It is impugned. It is attacked. The effort to globalize our society and make us feel, as many of us as possible, that there's nothing special about being an American, that we ought to think of ourselves as citizens of the world, and in that context America is a problem because we have too much, we've done too much, we owe too much, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

When we look at the settling of America we see a Bible in hand and God. Every Thanksgiving has God and the peacefulness of gratitude. It was important when the Twin Towers were hit and the sorrow with them that the first thing Congress did was sing "God Bless America."

The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system.

We are a great nation because we are a good people.

It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them will come centuries of further greatness to our country.

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good ,sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.

There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence.

We Americans are lucky to live in a country with a history full of noble ideas, great leaders and awe-inspiring accomplishments. Sadly, many of our elites want no part of it.

As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.

I like to talk about America. It's so mysterious.

Nothing can be truly great which is not right.

We were all illegal at one point and we were all unwanted at one point. Somebody in our family, if not us, was undesirable, and yet here we are. And this moral equivalence that this president [Barak Obama] makes is part and parcel of his effort to tear down the greatness and the uniqueness of this country. Make no mistake.

America needs somebody to restore the strength of this great land of ours.

America is great, because America is free.

The left think they've got a monopoly on this silly idea that we are a nation of immigrants, America's greatness is traceable to its immigrants. I'm sorry. I don't buy that as a stand-alone idea anyway because really what they're trying to say with that is that America's greatness is due to America's diversity, and that has not a thing to do with it. American Greatness is because of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and our country.

There is an essential goodness in Americans. They love this country.

A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion. . . . A race whose typical member is eternally torn between a passion for righteousness and a desire to get on in the world.

The greatness of America is in the American people. And what we need to do is get the government the hell out of the way and let the American people win once again.