America Quotes

H. l. mencken - sunday: a day given over by americans to wishing...
Dave barry - and, of course, you have the commercials where...
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt
England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.
George Bernard Shaw
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.
David Riesman
Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.
John Corry
The 100% American is 99% an idiot.
George Bernard Shaw
Daniel j. boorstin - americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be...
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.
Jesse Louis Jackson
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear - Cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves, which leave us to wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them that we are missing.
Gamel Abdel Nasse
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
Daniel Webste
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.
James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Margaret Thatche
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, Ours.
Father Andrew SDC
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
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
Camille Paglia
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
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
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
Bill Clinton
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
Woody Allen
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
John Ciardi
The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.
George Frost Kennan
The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.
Jim Hightowe
I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
James Thurbe
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
George Bernard Shaw
The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominate political mythology.
Michael Parenti
No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet.
William Safire
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
Louis D. Brandeis
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 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
Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.
Alf Landon, during his speech in his presidential campaign against FDR
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.
Emma Albani
When even one American - - who has done nothing wrong - - Is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - - Then all Americans are in peril.
Harry S Truman
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
Reubin Askew
The American ideal is youth - - Handsome, empty youth.
Henry Mille
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