The great Pacific Railway is commenced... Immigration will soon pour into these valleys. Ten millions of emigrants will settle in this golden land in twenty years... This is the grandest enterprise under God!
The American dream. Those three short, simple words encompass the hopes and aspirations of all the peoples on earth. The words are not only short and simple. They are also fragile.
I’m nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible.
So it's home again, and home again, America for me! My heart is turning home again, and there I long to be, In the land of youth and freedom beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars!
The United States of America was the first place on earth where average people had the opportunity to become the greatest among all people. It was the first time in human history where people were allowed to pursue the best of their abilities to whatever desire they wanted, because it was a nation founded under the concept of human beings being born free.
The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.
America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of material! it never lets you down!
I appreciate America as the land of opportunity. It's the land where you can see your dreams come true if you work hard. My parents are American.
I've always believed that this blessed land was set apart in a special way, that some divine plan placed this great continent here between the oceans to be found by people from every corner of the Earth who had a special love for freedom and the courage to uproot themselves, leave homeland and friends, to come to a strange land. And coming here they created something new in all the history of mankind-a land where man is not beholden to government, government is beholden to man.
The greatest myth of all is what America is. I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration.
America has a hold on imaginations that no other country does. I think that is partly because it is an immigrant country and there is still a kind of innocence in America that translates very well everywhere in the world.
Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what happened to me.
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
I believe the sense of lost opportunity is rooted in a faulty understanding of God's grace. Likewise, when grace is grasped and embraced, the Land of Opportunity becomes yours again.
How about we agree upon what our common American values are, which is let's make this a true land of opportunity.
For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.
Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.
Americans tend to feel satisfied within the wide boundaries of that huge, big country.
Folk who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign.
In America we have the greatest chance for opportunity than anyone else in the past six and a half thousand years. Never in recorded history have so many different gifts from all over the world been deposited in one country.
America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.
America has not been a story or a byword. That small community of Pilgrims prospered and, driven by the dreams and, yes, by the ideas of the Founding Fathers, went on to become a beacon to all the oppressed and poor of the world.
My career has been one long love letter to California as a whole, top to bottom.
I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is the West.
America is just a cool place.
