Ben Nelson Quotes

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

If we want to be proud to be from a country like America and all the things that we hang our hats on, like diversity, equality, land of the free and home of the brave, it's everybody's responsibility to ensure that everyone in the country is being afforded the same rights.

Based on what our country stands for. We can't fail to stand for democracy.

The Pledge of Allegiance says, 'liberty and justice for all'.

I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised.

The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.

In America, our origins matter less than our destinations and that is what democracy is all about.

Whether we come from poverty or wealth; whether we are Afro-American or Irish-American; Christian or Jewish, from big cities or small towns, we are all equal in the eyes of God. But as Americans, that is not enough, we must be equal in the eyes of each other. We can no longer judge each other on the basis of what we are, but must, instead, start finding out who we are. In America, our origins matter less than our destinations and that is what democracy is all about.

Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens.

Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution.

What a privilege it is to be an American!

And we should be a welcoming nation. Our identity is not based on race or ethnicity, it's based on a set of shared values. That's American citizenship.

America, to me, is freedom.

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

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

Everything I love about America is fragile.

Americanism is not a matter of skin or color.

Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.

The United States is a country of freedom that looks primarily after the rights of all of its citizens, of all religions and races, despite the problems in application that manifest themselves from time to time.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

All Americans are kings.

America is the only nation in the world that does not define itself by its boundaries but by its creed.

An American is one who will fight for his freedom and that of his neighbor.