America Quotes
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
I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.Charles Dickens
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.Robert Francis Kennedy
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.Will Rogers
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.Hunter S. Thompson
A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America.Otto von Bismarck
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
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
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.George Herbert Walker Bush
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.James T. Farrell
It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.Woody Allen
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.Peter Ustinov
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
I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American.A. F. Shaw
Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen.David Dean Rusk
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - And that yardstick is Is it good for America.Dwight D Eisenhowe
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.Gore Vidal
I hope that no American... will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.H. L. Mencken
We are capable of destroying America and breaking its nose.Muammar Qaddafi
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.Mark Twain
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - A sense of humor and a sense of proportion.Franklin D. Roosevelt
The American ideal is youth - - Handsome, empty youth.Henry Mille
An American will tinker with anything he can put his hands on. But how rarely can he be persuaded to tinker with an abstract idea.Leland Stowe
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
They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.Lyndon B. Johnson
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.Edward Morgan Forste
As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.Elija Lovejoy
Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.Henry M. Wriston
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.Margot Asquith
I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.Theodore Roosevelt
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
Tonight - To you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. On his Vietnam War policy.Richard Milhous Nixon
As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.Franklin D. Roosevelt
