Theresa Rebeck Quotes

The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

America is not to be Rome or Britain. It is to be America.

We can only solve our biggest problems if we come together and embrace the freedoms that our Founding Fathers established right here in Philadelphia, which permitted our ancestors to create the great American exceptionalism that all of us now enjoy.

For many of us who were born and raised in this country, including me, it's sometimes easy to forget how special America really is.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

U.S.A. is the speech of the people.

America is truly special because it's founded on an idea. It's the ideological and philosophical equivalent of a formless God, in other words, you know? It's, again, the only great country in the world that it is formed out of words.

I am proud to be an American Citizen.

America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.

Our Founding Fathers would be proud of all that America has achieved, and will continue to achieve, in the coming years.

Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.

I live in America. I love being an American.

The United States of America has been great because it has been free.

Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture, our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize.

The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.

I was born and grew up in the greatest, the noblest achievement of the human race on this planet - which was called the United States of America.

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

… in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress

Don’t apologize for your values. Tell the world why you are proud of America …. Being American means being free …