O' beautiful for spacious skies
This is America ... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky. ~GEORGE H.W. BUSH, RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her, through the night with a light from above.
Young man, there is America -- which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men, and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world. ~EDMUND BURKE, speech on conciliation with America, 1775
God shed His grace on Thee
No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.
~GEORGE WASHINGTON, first inaugural address, Apr. 30, 1789
O' say does that star spangled banner yet wave, o'er the Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave?
France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter—it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, "The Swimmers," Saturday Evening Post, Oct. 19, 1929
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
~Thomas Jefferson
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