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I think in London - and I don't wanna offend anybody in America, but this is a real statement - they still have the right approach to making music. In the U.S., people see it as a way to make money; they see it as a means to get out. It's a hustle, which is great - any way you can provide for your family that's legal is fantastic.
— Jay-Z
America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The key to the future for blacks is a commitment to America and its ideals of freedom, personal responsibility, the free enterprise system, and moral principles.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
On observing 1963 America for the first time, the author says that organization and standardization to a certain degree compete with divine providence.
— Karl Barth
That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Elvis epitomised America, and for that we shall be eternally grateful. There will never be anyone else like him. Let's all rejoice in his music.
— Ronald Reagan
There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
— Michael Ignatieff
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
— Herbert Hoover
We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace. And America is constantly at war.
— Jimmy Carter
America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace.
— Ronald Reagan
The choice is his [Saddam Hussein's]. And if he does not disarm, the United States of America will lead a coalition and disarm him, in the name of peace.
— George W. Bush