America Quotes

President ronald reagan, to the national association of evangelicals, columbus, ohio - america has begun a spiritual reawakening. faith...
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
Reubin Askew
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No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
Herbert Clark Hoove
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
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.
Groucho Marx
Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
Rachel Blanchard
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Oscar Wilde
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
I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly There is a tendency for the world to say to America, the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out, and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.
Tony Blai
American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.
Elinor Glyn
We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.
Waldo Frank
In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.
Geoffrey Cottrell
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
I let the American people down.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.
John Gunthe
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
Peter Ustinov
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 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
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
W. Somerset Maugham
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Sinclair Lewis
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
There are three social classes in America upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.
Judith Martin
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George Will
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport.
Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.
Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940
On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - Halftime.
Unknown
The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell upon their knees. Then they fell upon the aborigines.
(Anon.)
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.
Mohammed Daud Khan
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
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
George Will
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
Joseph Conrad
England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.
George Bernard Shaw
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
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
Virgil Thompson
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein, 1929
I think on - Stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
Shelley Winters
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
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self - Conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under - Value them.
Henry James