United States Quotes: United We Stand

Great collection of United States Quotes.  We need to stand united and not be divided.  It is good to remember that we live in the land of opportunity.  How many people reading this didn’t have the best childhood?  Weren’t born with a silver spoon in their mouth?  Had to struggle to get to where they are at?  Worked their butts off and made it to where they are today.  We have problems in the United States.  But we we work on those problems and the United States provides opportunity to those that are willing to work their tales off and continue til they succeed.

• “America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” ~President Abraham Lincoln
• “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” ~Harriet Tubman
• “When I was growing up, I don’t remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.” ~Martin Scorsese

United We Stand

• “My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.” ~President Herbert Hoover
• “We’re blessed with the opportunity to stand for something—for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.” ~President Ronald Reagan
• “America stands for the land of opportunity.” ~Michael Grimm
• “Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” ~Marin Luther King Jr.
• “Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.” ~President Franklin D. Roosevelt
• “This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.” ~President Theodore Roosevelt
• “The Constitution only guarantees you the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” ~Benjamin Franklin
• “If you’re worried about getting a job-or keeping one-start a company of your own. By doing so, you’ll reap the rewards of your hard work and you’ll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it.” ~Bruce Campbell
• “The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.” ~President Lyndon B. Johnson
• “America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.” ~Max Lerner
• “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” ~Henry Ford
• “A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” ~President Dwight D. Eisenhower
• “America is a land of opportunity, and don’t ever forget it.” ~Will Rogers
• “One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation evermore!” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
• “Basically, there are two kinds of stereotypes out there in the world about America. There’s America the Goliath – the big, powerful, bullying country that pushes its way around the world and gets its ways, pursues its own interests nakedly, irrespective of what others want. And the other stereotype is America, the land of opportunity, where everyone can go and do anything, be anything, make any dreams come true.” ~Shashi Tharoor

Divided We Fall

• “Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has become the strength of America.” ~Gary Locke
• “We hold these truths to be self-evident: 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.” ~Thomas Jefferson
• “If you take advantage of everything America has to offer, there’s nothing you can’t accomplish.” ~Geraldine Ferraro
• “A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.” ~Tony Blair
• “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.”  ~President John F. Kennedy
• “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.” ~President Bill Clinton
• “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” ~President Ronald Reagan
• “Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer.” ~Dorothy Fuldheim
• “We stand today on the edge of a new frontier – the frontier of the 1960’s – a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils – a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.” ~President John F. Kennedy
• “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” ~Martin Luther King Jr.
• “The land of opportunity. You just need the right people and the right work ethic and you can accomplish anything.” ~Bob Poser
• “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.” ~Winston Churchill
• “I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.”  ~President George Washington