Arthur C. Brooks Quotes

Like generations before us, we have a calling from beyond the stars to stand for freedom. This is the everlasting dream of America.

The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

What a privilege it is to be an American!

America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.

And freedom is what America means to the world.

I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.

Our Founding Fathers would be proud of all that America has achieved, and will continue to achieve, in the coming years.

I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens.

This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on.

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

We, the people of the United States, we are a great Nation with a great vision.

The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred.

In fact, looking at the darkest sides of the United States has only made me appreciate the things that we do right, the things that we do beautifully. We are, for all of our mistakes and all of our crimes, a remarkable place.

An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.

We believe in humility and integrity, the spirit of one people, bound together under God. We understand that the Constitution was written to control and regulate the government, not the people.

Every country in every war fights for freedom.

Human rights are being exalted over victory.

Whenever an American requests to see me I comply, because I respect a people who acquired their freedom by firmness without excess.

The wounds of my country will heal after the troubles of anarchy and bloody revolution. The peaceful Canadian will see happiness and liberty on the St. Lawrence. Everything converges towards that end, even the executions; the blood and tears spilled on the altar of liberty today of watering the roots of the tree on which will fly the flag marked with the two stars of the Canadas.

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

Our wars were not fought for the glory of war, but for freedom.