America Quotes

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 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

Anglo - Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

William Jennings Bryan

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

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

Dwight David Eisenhowe

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.

George Santayana

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 actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

C. H. Cooley

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.

Mark Twain

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Ronald Reagan

As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.

Elija Lovejoy

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

George Bernard Shaw

I epitomize America.

John Denve

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

Edward Morgan Forste

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

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Gore Vidal

The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration, from the cautious quest for what they knew or what they thought they knew was out there, to an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown.

Daniel J. Boorstin

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

Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Gore Vidal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

When Fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag.

Huey Long

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

America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money - - Then make money with money - - Then make lots of money with lots of money.

Paul Erdman

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp - Looking report.

Dave Barry

America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

Garry Trudeau

We Americans live in a nation where the medical - Care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.

Dave Barry

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

When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the American flag.

Huey Long

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882

England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.

George Bernard Shaw

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 F. Kennedy

When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused? preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999

The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.

William Fullbright

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.

George W. Bush, Inaugural address, 2001