Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Oscar Wilde

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

George Washington

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

James Fenimore Cooper

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

Oscar Wilde

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

Woodrow Wilson

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

Sigmund Freud

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world.

Edward Grey