America Quotes

Anonymous, as told in women who run with the wolves by clarissa pinkola estes - a native american grandfather was talking to his...
All American cars are basically Chevrolets.
Herb Caen
H. l. mencken - unquestionably, there is progress. the average...
America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - From Democracy in America.
Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.
George W. Bush
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - To surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
Thomas Jefferson
I have one of those real old American built cars. The kind that just PUNCHES through accidents.
Kevin Rooney
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
Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.
Eric Nicol
I let the American people down.
Richard Milhous Nixon
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
Thomas Jefferson
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
George Santayana
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
Peter Ustinov
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Gerald R. Ford
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
America - A great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far - Reaching in purpose.
Herbert Hoove
We can have no 50 - 50 allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
Teddy Roosevelt
As an anti - American, I thank you for your rotten article devoted to my person.
Prince Sihanouk in a letter to Time magazine
No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet.
William Safire
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Peter Ustinov
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - A date which will live on 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, Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941
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
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
In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.
Marlene Dietrich
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
Daniel Webste
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
George Bernard Shaw
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
American soldiers must be turned into lambs and eating them is tolerated.
Muammar Qaddafi
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July I answer A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.
Frederick Douglas
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
America is a young country with an old mentality.
George Santayana
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 the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
Gertrude Stein, The Geographical History of America (1936)
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
The story of my boyhood and that of my brothers is important only because it could happen in any American family. It did, and will again.
Earl Eisenhowe