American Experiment Quotes

#1. When you've seen prejudice, you understand that we aren't finished, that we're still perfecting this American experiment.

Anthony Romero

#2. He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with sociable genes who fled the crowded Old World for the new continent; it was the people who didn't get along well with others.

Jonathan Franzen

#3. It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.

Pope John Paul II

#4. Libertarian immigration policy would be an experiment in which I don't think we should participate. We should not bet the republic that the results will be good. I suspect the results would be a disaster and the end of the American experiment.

Jan C. Ting

#5. For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the notion that the government is all of us and that, therefore, the government may keep things in trust for all of us.

Charlie Pierce

#6. Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise.

Charles Colson

#7. The American experiment has come and gone. Whatever freedoms the people still might have as their own, are monitored and registered and taxed at virtually every turn.

Jeff Baxter

#8. The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.

Dennis Prager

#9. The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

Marian Wright Edelman

#10. The richness of America is that we are diverse. We're not Sweden. We're not Norway. We are a great American experiment. And as soon as we start trying to forget race or turn our back on race, number one, we don't confront the real racial realities that still persist.

Cory Booker

#11. That is the American experiment. An ethnic group arriving on America's shores, to be reviled and hazed, living in squalor, or if they are lucky Squalor Heights, working hard to give their children or grandchildren the opportunity to sh*t on the next group landing on our shores.

Jon Stewart

#12. The American experiment has always depended on a measure of tolerance and good sense.

David Ignatius

#13. Religious freedom, often referred to as the first freedom, is of central import to the American experiment. As such it should feature prominently in U.S. foreign policy.

Frank Wolf

#14. The American experiment was frequently shaped by a rejection of old ways and openness to the new. In religious terms, this rejection created over time a nation unique in its ability to absorb and be built by those of different beliefs; people who believed there were many gods, or none at all.

Peter Manseau

#15. We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.

Glenn Beck

#16. Passepartout was astounded, and, though ready to attempt anything to get over Medicine Creek, thought the experiment proposed a little too American.

Jules Verne

#17. To improve someone's life, don't reprimand but find the opportunity to appreciate and encourage.

Debasish Mridha

#18. The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children.

Ruth Reichl

#19. America has probably been the most successful experiment in history. The American Dream was a glorious attempt. It was built on a religious foundation. Its earliest concepts came from Holy Scripture.

Billy Graham

#20. I love dreams. I know enough about them to know that dream logic is no story logic, and that you can rarely bring a dream back as a tale: it will have transformed from gold into leaves. from silk to cobwebs, on waking

Neil Gaiman

#21. The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

George Washington

#22. He's one of those managers you'd give your left leg to play for.

Colin Cooper

#23. Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.

Mary McLeod Bethune

#24. Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they're so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.

James Mattis

#25. Why can't you just get married in Las Vegas like normal Americans?

Meg Cabot

#26. The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the problems that will confront the world tomorrow.

Nicholas Murray Butler

#27. Jason patted me on the back. "Tomorrow night we'll take you out chasing deer."
"I thought you'd chase cars," I said.
He grinned. "What fun is that? Cars don't bleed.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#28. When a person earns money, it makes sense if he spends it himself. It's a shame when a person earns money, and some strange funds spend it.

Sergey Galitsky