„Every day America’s destroyed and re-created,America is what you do,America is I and you,America is what you choose to make it.“

— W. H. Auden
„You know, just over a decade ago, I gave a speech in Boston where I said there wasn’t a liberal America or a conservative America; a black America or a white America -- but a United States of America.“
— Barack Obama
„America is the place where you can not kill your Government by killing the men who conduct it. The only way you can kill government in America is by making the men and women of America forget how to govern, and nobody can do that. They sometimes find the team a little difficult to drive, but they sooner or later whip it into harness.“
— Woodrow Wilson