America Quotes
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.Joseph Conrad
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 think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States. It has no following and has been disregarded by the American people for many, many years.Robert F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.Sinclair Lewis
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un - American act that could most easily defeat us.William Orville Douglas
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.Peter Ustinov
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. On the Vietnam Wa.Richard Milhous Nixon
It could probably be show by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress.Mark Twain
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.Margot Asquith
If happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.William Lyon Phelps
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.Lyndon B. Johnson
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.William Golding
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 the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.Oscar Wilde
In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.Geoffrey Cottrell
American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.Elinor Glyn
The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.Gunnar Myrdal
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
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.Dwight D Eisenhowe
If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot.John A. Dix
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.Peter Kropotkin
The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises - It is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook - It holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.Sinclair Lewis
An American is a man with two arms and four wheels.A Chinese Child
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.John Gunthe
Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.Rachel Blanchard
America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.Albert Einstein, 1929
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.Mary Ellen Kelly
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.Will Rogers
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.Woody Allen
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.Gore Vidal
An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon.Gerald R. Ford
America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio
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
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.Michael Caine, www. aint - It - Cool - News. com
