America Quotes
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.John Ashcroft
At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.John Kerry, speech in New York, August 24, 2004
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
If I were to select a jack - Booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF.John Dingell
America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.George W. Bush
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.William John Bennett
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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.Mark Twain
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
Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness.Archibald MacLeish
My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.Ronald Reagan
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.William J. Clinton
But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.Geoffrey F. Albert
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.Woodrow Wilson
I let the American people down.Richard Milhous Nixon
Tonight - To you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. On his Vietnam War policy.Richard Milhous Nixon
Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.George Walker Bush
If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.George W. Bush
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.George Will
I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.Edgar Watson Howe
The political lesson of Watergate is this Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by - Pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.Gerald R. Ford
America is a young country with an old mentality.George Santayana
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.Carl Sagan
I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.Mohammed Daud Khan
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - To surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.Thomas Jefferson
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.Jimmy Carte
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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
I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.George W. Bush, September 2, 2004, The Republican National Convention, N. Y.
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
America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome.Rush Limbaugh
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.Benjamin Harrison
Americans become unhappy and vicious because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.Philip Saltie
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.Van Wyck Brooks
Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.Eric Nicol
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.Emma Albani
