Margot Asquith Quotes

As a result of the generous spirit of the American people, our family had the privilege of growing up as free Americans.

I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much - and its big, awkward, sprawling people.

India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

Nevadans, and all Americans, are resilient. Overcoming adversity is a part of our national heritage.

Nationality is the aggregated individuality of the greatest men of the nation.

At thirty I lived in a world where death wasn't immediately real; it was always something "out there." My deeply held illusions of immortality - a product of my very conservative religious upbringing - were still pretty much intact.

The authority and influence of France on the world scene in the 21st century will not depend solely on its modernity and cohesion, nor even on the continuity and professionalism of its foreign policy. France will be heeded if it has a message to convey. Faced with the temptations of laissez-faire, France must stand out as the nation with the imagination and determination to pursue an ambition that combines cogency with generosity.

The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.

For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. So let us mark this day with remebrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled.

I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.

I have never lost faith in America's essential goodness and greatness.

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.

But the English are different, and they don't know how to be other than different.

American gentlemen are a cross between English and French men, and yet really altogether like neither. They are more refined and modest than Frenchmen, and less manly, shy, and rough, than Englishmen. Their brains are finer and flimsier, their bodies less robust and vigorous than ours. We are the finer animals, and they the subtler spirits. Their intellectual tendency is to excitement and insanity, and ours to stagnation and stupidity.

I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great

What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.

The American people want change, and they see in Donald Trump a leader who embodies the American spirit.

I have a great faith in the strength and the resilience in the American people.

A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.

American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land.

No single character is ever so great that a nation can afford to form itself upon it. Imitation belittles. This appears in the instance of the Chinese. The Chinese are so many Confucii; in miniature. And so with the Jews. Moses, the lawgiver, is poorly represented by Moses, the old clothesman ; or even by Dives, the hanker.

Our way of life, our government defines the way America is. I mean, it's not luck.