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May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers. -- Abraham Lincoln
Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -- Jim Ryun
Bill, The United States is not a company. It is a country. -- Stewart Alsop
The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class. -- Timothy Noah
Why is America such a great country. It is because we stand united. -- Martin Yan
Every country where the the United States maintains troops has a status of forces agreement. -- Richard Engel
The United Nations has a proud record of helping millions of people in mine-affected countries. -- Ban Ki-moon
The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country. -- Timothy Noah
If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it. -- Hamid Karzai
Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls. -- Ice T
Serving as President of the United States is a privilege that is afforded to few in our country. -- Marsha Blackburn
If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. -- Nelson Mandela
There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd. -- Sam Richards
The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution. -- Vernon A. Walters
The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand. -- Chester A. Arthur
The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country. -- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. -- Noam Chomsky
But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there. -- William Labov
In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner. -- Umberto Eco
When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country. -- Bobby Fischer
Denmark is a small, homogenous nation of about 5.5 million people. The United States is a melting pot of more than 315 million people. No question about it, Denmark and the United States are very different countries. -- Bernie Sanders
The United States is a fake country -- Russell Means
This country (United States) has too many freedoms. -- Howard Stern
United States: the country where liberty is a statue. -- Nicanor Parra
This country is not pro-American. It is United States property. -- Juan Bosch
I am a man who loves my country, the United States. -- Donald Trump
The United States is the only country with a known birthday. -- James G. Blaine
The United States is a country where everybody can start again. -- Robert Wyatt
The United Kingdom Is Not A Country That Anybody Can Be Proud Of -- Craig Murray
I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do. -- Samantha Power
The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country. -- Leon Trotsky
The United States, for all its faults, is till the greatest nation in the country. -- Spiro T. Agnew
When the United States media is paying attention, that's when you're really representing your country. -- Hannah Kearney
The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country. -- Al Sharpton
The unity in diversity of the United States is one of the country's greatest strengths. -- Ban Ki-moon
The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country. -- Thomas Jefferson
Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country. -- Daniel Ortega
Of course, one cannot get to know a country like the United States in short visits. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The United States was a big country where everybody wore funny t-shirts and ate too much. -- Adam Rex
In the United States, we want to believe we will never become a country of refugees. -- Nguyen Viet Thang
Out of the Roman States there is no country where I am Pope except the United States. -- Pope Gregory XVI
I have great faith in the United States. It's the only country I would ever live in. -- Harvey Fierstein
I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions. -- Hugo Chavez
As far as we are concerned, we are not the toys of any country, including the United States. -- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
The real charm of the United States is that it is the only comic country ever heard of. -- H. L. Mencken
We are the only country who is an ally of the United States that never asked for American soldiers. -- Shimon Peres
History will record that the Citizens United decision is one of the worst in the history of our country. -- Bernie Sanders
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country "? and we haven't seen them since. -- Gore Vidal
There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer. -- Arthur Tappan Pierson
You will never see President Bachmann step one toe out of the United States and apologize for this country. -- Michele Bachmann
The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system. -- John Mica
After installing friendly leaders in Iran and Guatemala, the United States lost interest in promoting democracy in either country. -- Stephen Kinzer
The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country...We are United as Americans. -- Barack Obama
I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language... Apache. -- Steve Martin
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There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Tennis is seen all around the world; if I am home or anywhere in the country, United States, people will stare. -- Pete Sampras
We [the United States] are not every other country. And models that work elsewhere may not have the same impact here. -- Joel Klein
We stand united, facing the big responsibility to change our country into a nation of justice, solidarity, humanity and green development. -- George Papandreou
There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman. -- Carrie Chapman Catt
Everybody has a magazine and a channel. There are 500 channels and 500 magazines, and we wonder why we're not united as a country. -- Bill Maher
The United States gave me opportunities that my country of origin could not: freedom of the press and complete freedom of expression. -- Jorge Ramos
We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States. -- Peter Kuznick
More than 1 million U.S. citizens live in Mexico, and my country remains the largest source of immigrants to the United States. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
With the exception of China, and perhaps Turkey, no country in the world matters as much to the United States as Mexico. -- Stephen Kinzer
I think even the poorest people in the great country that is the United States should be entitled to basic health care, -- Michael D. Higgins
We've got to unite our country again, because we're stronger when we are united and we are weaker when we are divided. -- John Kasich
It is better for a country to have a strong leader, this applies to the United States as well as to Rwanda. -- Paul Kagame
The more united we are on the central questions of policy, the better it will be for the future of our country. -- Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Staple a green card to their diploma - welcome to the United States of America! We want those people in our country. -- Mitt Romney
The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people. -- Unita Blackwell
I was lucky enough to have been born on this planet earth, in this admirable country of the United States of America. -- Buzz Aldrin
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale. -- Gore Vidal
In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the country -- Kay Warren
There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States. -- Ron Chernow
In all modesty, my summing up of 1955-6 and 1956-7 must be that no club in the country could live with Manchester United. -- Matt Busby
There are some places that have had real quarrels with the United States' policies, but I think the country is very well-respected worldwide. -- Condoleezza Rice
We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far. -- Jimmy Carter
It's very important who the president of the United States is. America is a great idea, so that's why it's a great country. -- Fran Lebowitz
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it. -- Woodrow Wilson
The principal role of the President of the United States is the security of the country and participating in trying to stabilize the world. -- John Sununu
Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs. -- George Will
The United States is the only advanced country that permits the pharmaceutical industry to charge exactly what the market will bear, whatever it wants. -- Marcia Angell
No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war. -- Phyllis Schlafly
In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country. -- Bobby Scott
Any country that grants asylum to Snowden risks retaliation from the United States, including diplomatic isolation and costly trade sanctions. Several don't seem to care. -- Stephen Kinzer
Next to upholding the Constitution of the United States, the president's highest duty is to protect the security of this country - our national security. -- Wesley Clark
If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else. -- Kevin Spacey
Imagine if the United States, in its war against Hitler, had said to Stalin: we don't want your support until you make your country democratic. -- Natan Sharansky
Because of the hegemony of fundamentalist religion in the United States, this country has been among the most resistant to the fact of human evolution. -- Jerry A. Coyne
Global challenges also require global solutions, and few indeed are the situations in which the United States or any other country can act completely alone. -- Shashi Tharoor
I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country. -- Scott Ritter
Any country that makes U.S. service members get on their knees will feel the full force and fury of the United States of America. -- Ted Cruz
We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry? -- Alexandra Paul
The United States has put more money on HIV, AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis than any country in the world and it's having an impact real quick. -- Bill Frist
The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
Methamphetamine is a highly dangerous drug that is wreaking havoc on families and communities throughout this country. The drug's use is spreading across the United States. -- Rick Larsen
For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither. -- Condoleezza Rice
If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States. -- Bill Gates
I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches. -- Ida B. Wells
Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America. -- Paul Stanley
If I lived in another country, like a country that was, say, an enemy of the United States, I would be more amused than I am. -- Fran Lebowitz
If every hypocrite in the United States were to break his leg to-day the country could be successfully invaded to-morrow by the warlike hypocrites of Canada. -- Ambrose Bierce
Ninety countries still hold on to capital punishment, and, sadly, one of these is the United States, the only Western industrialized country to practice this barbaric punishment. -- Antoinette Bosco
The media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States. -- Kevin Drum
Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States. -- Horace Gray
The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control. -- Jeff Flake
The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty. -- Nathaniel Branden
I want to see an open and tolerant society here in the United Kingdom, I want to see a country that works for everyone whatever their background. -- Theresa May
Electricity generation emits more carbon dioxide in the United States than does transportation or industry, and nuclear power is the largest source of carbon-free electricity in the country. -- Ernest Moniz
It is presumable that no country will be able to borrow of foreigners upon better terms than the United States, because none can, perhaps, afford so good security. -- Alexander Hamilton
As the treaty made with the United States was the first treaty entered into by your country with other countries, therefore the President regards Japan with peculiar friendliness. -- Townsend Harris
The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one. -- James Surowiecki
The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education. -- Jeff Bingaman
One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels. -- Leon Panetta
United States could be a great country. It needs to be a great country. It's our responsibility as citizens to make that happen, every single one of us. -- Paul Haggis
But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world. -- Christiane Amanpour

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