Thomas Jefferson Quotes

For many of us who were born and raised in this country, including me, it's sometimes easy to forget how special America really is.

America, the country of my heart, my second home.

It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance.

America is a country with so much opportunity. I'm living the blessings of what this country offers.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.

America is the greatest country in the world.

To me, you know, from my childhood I always had a fascination for United States.

I live in America. I love being an American.

I was born and grew up in the greatest, the noblest achievement of the human race on this planet - which was called the United States of America.

I know America is the country that loved me most.

I will never be able to break the hold that America has on me.

U. S. A. is the slice of a continent. U. S. A. is a group of holding companies, some aggregations of trade unions, a set of laws bound in calf, a radio network, a chain of moving picture theaters, a column of stock quotations …a public library full of old newspapers and dog-eared history books with protests scrawled on the margins in pencil. U. S. A. is the world’s greatest river valley fringed with mountains and hills, U. S. A. is a set of big-mouthed officials with too many bank accounts. U. S. A is a lot of men buried in their uniforms in Arlington Cemetery. U. S. A. is the letters at the end of the address when you are away from home. But mostly U. S. A. is the speech of the people.

Arise Americans. Your country and liberty are in danger.

I will try to glorify the republic and liberty over there in the hope that someday I will find it again here in France.

The longer I lived overseas, the more I appreciated being from South Africa.

I think America was a miracle. I think God loves this country.

The United States is the greatest country on Earth.

America has always been a special place for me, since my youth.

I lived in America. I love America.

England, through good times or bad, was the only place I wanted to be.

I believe in the country America used to be.

This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime