America Quotes

Charles stanton - in america, one gets as much justice as one can...
Gore vidal - any american who is prepared to run for president...
America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
Alexis de Tocqueville
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
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
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
King Edward VIII
Evan esa - america believes in education the average...
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
They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight.
Roger Rosenblatt
It could probably be show by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
Mark Twain
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
The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen.
John Sloan Dickey
The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - The principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
William Orville Douglas
The 100% American is 99% an idiot.
George Bernard Shaw
When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the American flag.
Huey Long
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
Albert Einstein
When Fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag.
Huey Long
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
Bob Dylan
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
Ernest Dimnet
America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome.
Rush Limbaugh
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
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Richard Milhous Nixon
A world in which others controlled the course of their own development... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.
Benjamin Cohen
A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - Indeed, inevitable - The United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.
Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
Elizabeth II
Well, it looks like the all - Star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.
Jerry Coleman
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
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
Jacques Martin Barzun
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
John Barrymore
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
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box their home, then travel the same road every day to another box their office.
Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
There is a need for heroism in American life today.
Vicki Baum
We are capable of destroying America and breaking its nose.
Muammar Qaddafi
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
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need.
John Dewey
Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.
Roy Blount Jr.
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.
Carl Sandburg
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