'Give me liberty or give me death'. 'Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee'. 'Houston, we have a problem'. Unlike conventional quotation collections, "America Out Loud" does not confine itself to the noble and the eloquent, but encompasses the most inspirational, irreverent, intelligent, ignorant, influential, and important things Americans have ever said. It captures the soundtrack of American life, from Patrick Henry to George W. Bush, from Benjamin Franklin to Chris Rock, from Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Paris Hilton.