Benjamin Rush Quotes

I'm so proud to be American.

Actually it's great to be an American. I love my country.

This is the America we know because we built it.

I have grown up in the bright light of America.

I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers.

I live in America. I love being an American.

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'

I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place.

Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.

I am very proud to be an American. This country has so much potential, I'd just like to see things better, or whatever, and I think it will be.

The United States of America is the greatest gift to mankind.

Be proud, proud, proud to be an American.

Being American means you never have to say you surrender.

I anticipate the day when to command respect in the remotest regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American. Our flag shall then wave in glory over the ocean and our commerce feel no restraint but what our own government may impose. Happy thrice happy day. Thank God, to reach this envied state we need only to will. Yes my countrymen. Our destiny depends on our will. But if we would stand high on the record of time that will must be inflexible.

I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.

The world's going to respect us again and they don't now. A lot of that has to do with the leader. And a lot of it has to do with leadership. But our country is going to be respected again and we are going to make America great again.

We are Americans, and the future belongs to us.

When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

Why do people like America? They say, well, you have the largest military in the world. Because you have more people, et cetera. They like America for what we stand for. And one of the things, and I feel proud to be, what this president's for, the last seven years, is we have once again aligned our basic fundamental beliefs and principles with our conduct. And it matters. It matters in terms of our security. It matters in terms of our ability to influence the world. It matters in our ability to succeed.

This notion that Americans have. . . that they don't have to do anything other than be American in order to lead - that's very pervasive in the culture, it goes very deep into how they see themselves here.

I could be anything I wanted because I was an American. And I hope that that's really what's propelled me into public service.

Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam... These events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the world nor of America's leadership in the world.

The love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins.

America will not tolerate being pushed around by anybody, anyplace.