American

"We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that we are only 6 percent of the world’s population; that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind; that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity; and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem."

President John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth."

Charles Luckman

"America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy."

John Updike

"America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up."

Oscar Wilde

"America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered."

Louis Brandeis