America Quote Archive

Perhaps, after all, America has yet to truly discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. — Oscar Wilde


“Let America be America again.”

Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
A home where we roam free.

(America never was America to me.)

Let America be the dream the dreamers dream—
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where no kings connive nor tyrants scheme
Where no man is crushed from above.

(America never was America to me.)

— Bill Purdin

Al Gore and Hillary Clinton had to things in common: they both knew their opponent was unfit for office, and, they both honored th peaceful transfer of power despite this knowledge. — Bill Purdin