The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Here in England, everyone’s a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

I didn’t tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn’t happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.

An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

The only definition by which America’s best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don’t understand it. It’s like America has lost faith in rational thought.

I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n‘ roll, the beat writers.

Oh yes, there’s lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

I will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

I disagree with any policy that would turn America’s back on people who are fleeing harm. I frankly believe that it is contrary to everything that we have symbolically and actually said we stand for.

Here in America, we don’t give in to our fears. We don’t build up walls to keep people out.

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.

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.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America’s financial traits.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

I love America, it’s a much more permissive place.

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!