America Quotes
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.Sigmund Freud
Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.Gore Vidal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.Margot Asquith
In order to be able to live in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.Alice Walke
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.Edgar Watson Howe
For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wants her to succeed as much as she does.Cathleen Douglas
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.George Washington, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789
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
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.Dan Quayle
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 quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.John F. Kennedy
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.William John Bennett
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 - which - we are missing.Gamal Abdel Nasse
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.George Will
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.
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.Oscar Wilde
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.Gloria Steinem
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
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.Woody Allen
We can now prove that large numbers of Americans are dying from sitting on their behinds.Bruce B. Dan
I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American.A. F. Shaw
And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp - Looking report.Dave Barry
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.Charles De Gaulle
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.George Washington
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.
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.A. E. Housman
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.Benjamin Harrison
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 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 is not like a blanket - - One piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt - - Many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.Henry M. Jackson
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
And so, my fellow americans ask not what your country can do for you - Ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.John F. Kennedy
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.John Adams
Indignation boils my blood at the thought of the heritage we are throwing away; at the thought that, with few exceptions, the fight for freedom is left to the poor, forlorn and defenseless, and to the few radicals and revolutionaries who would make use of liberty to destroy, rather than to maintain, American institutions.Arthur Garfield Hays
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Just what is it that America stands for If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.Woodrow Wilson
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
