America Quotes

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

Elizabeth II

The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen.

John Sloan Dickey

As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Gerald R. Ford

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans allBy uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

John Dickinson

The 100% American is 99% an idiot.

George Bernard Shaw

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

Bill Clinton

Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.

Roy Blount Jr.

During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.

Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Margaret Thatche

I have one of those real old American built cars. The kind that just PUNCHES through accidents.

Kevin Rooney

We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.

Waldo Frank

There is a homely old adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

Theodore Roosevelt

America, why are your libraries full of tears?

Allen Ginsberg

Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead.

Sinclair Lewis

I think there are only three things America will be known for 2, 000 years from now when they study this civilization the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.

Gerald Early

The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.

Jesse Louis Jackson

The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.

George Frost Kennan

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

Thomas Jefferson

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

Jacques Martin Barzun

American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good - will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.

James Harvey Robinson

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Henry David Thoreau

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Carl Sandburg

We Americans know - Although others appear to forget - The risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam.

Lyndon B. Johnson

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly... to revere God and be God.

Daniel J. Boorstin

I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

James Thurbe

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

Theodore Harold White

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.

George F. Will, Statecraft as Soulcraft

I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

Ronald Reagan, Nov. 5, 1994

There are three social classes in America upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

Judith Martin

America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth.

David Frost

Well, it looks like the all - Star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.

Jerry Coleman

The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.

Peter Ustinov

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Theodore Roosevelt

America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.

Oscar Wilde