I love America more than any other country in this world;
and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to
criticize her perpetually-James Baldwin

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is
likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally
true-James T. Farrell

America is a tune.  It must be sung together-Gerald Stanley
Lee, Crowds

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash
it-Norman Thomas

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a
country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy-Paul
Sweeney