Quotes About The American Experiment

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Charles Colson

#8. 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

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

Glenn Beck

#10. 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

#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. People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down.

Nick Cave

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

Jules Verne

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

Ruth Reichl

#16. This is a shining example of never quit, never give up, & never say never. I proved everyone wrong.

Mickie James

#17. Well, life was tough, but at least I was able to live it out and I was able to face death and not be afraid.

Sam Kinison

#18. 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

#19. O time! swift devourer of all created things!

Leonardo Da Vinci

#20. 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

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

Mary McLeod Bethune

#22. Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.

Maurice Sendak

#23. You're seriously suggesting this?" Az interrupted, his face full of disbelief. "That I what, dump her so she kills herself? That's fucked up.

Leah Clifford

#24. You can't make yourself fall in love, just as you can't choose who you fall in love with.

Alexandra Potter

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

Dennis Prager

#26. 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

#27. At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the whole neighboring district quakes to its centre. 'Tis the devils kept prisoner there.

Martin Luther

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#31. The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It's a morning yearning.

Ben Harper

#32. I can't have just anybody assisting me, I need somebody who I can really communicate with.

Robert Mapplethorpe

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

Anthony Romero

#34. There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.

John Updike