Only Americans can hurt America.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.

Part of the core information that I’ve been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don’t play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let’s say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they’re equally dangerous.

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.

Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave the name.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

I’m going to try to unite all Americans.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

One of the things that we’re trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore things that aren’t all tied to Facebook identity. Some things will be, but not everything will have to be, because there are some sets of experiences that are just better with other identities.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

I’m nobody, who are you?

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, ‚black feminist‘ does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it’s just… womanish.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

I don’t blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they’ll realize there’s more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

Bob Marley isn’t my name. I don’t even know my name yet.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

Funk, I don’t think I have anything to do with funk. I’ve never considered myself funky.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

When I ask OGs why there’s so much division in the streets, nobody never really knows. But you know one thing that everybody always mention? A woman.