America Quotes

When Fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag.

Huey Long

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Ronald Reagan

On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - Halftime.

Unknown

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Walt Whitman

This American system of ours... call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Al Capone

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, Speech in Chicago, 3 Apr. 1903

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

Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear - Cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing.

Gamel Abdel Nasse

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you - - Ask what you can do for your country.

John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

Gore Vidal

If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

George W. Bush

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Oscar Wilde

Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens.

Woodrow Wilson

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

Dan Quayle

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president.

Gerald R. Ford

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

George Bernard Shaw

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.

Groucho Marx

Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book - Of - The - Month - Club.

Melvin Belli on the occasion of his getting kicked out of the American Bar Association

I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.

Henry G. Strauss

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

Shirley Mount Hufstedle

I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.

Janina Atkins

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.

Gertrude Stein

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

Hunter S. Thompson

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

Judith Martin

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

Andy Rooney

I think on - Stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

Shelley Winters

The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell upon their knees. Then they fell upon the aborigines.

(Anon.)

I was looking for an American symbol. A Coca - Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing anything with the American flag would have been insulting, and Cadillac hub caps were just too uncomfortable. speaking about the dress she wore made of American Express Cards.

Lizzy Gardine

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

Jacques Martin Barzun

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

Joseph Conrad

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.

William O. Douglas

I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose... that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans.

William Jefferson Clinton

America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.

George W. Bush