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American Quotations & Interesting facts about our American History

(Quotations are from The Quotations Page).

• And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
  John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural address, January 20, 1961
  

• The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
  Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
  
  
• America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.
  Dinesh D'Souza
  
  
• America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.
  George W. Bush (1946 - )
  
  
• "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."
  Norman Thomas (1884-1968) (US Socialist Party Politician)
  
  
• Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
  Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
  
  
• Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
  Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
  
  
• 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, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
  Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
  
  
• The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
  Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)