America Quotes
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
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.Hunter S. Thompson
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.Charles De Gaulle
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
As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.Franklin D. Roosevelt
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.Walt Whitman
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.George Bernard Shaw
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.Gore Vidal
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - - That we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.Thomas Wolfe
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
The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America.Ty - Grace Atkinson
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
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.Harry S Truman
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.Edgar Watson Howe
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 standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.Irwin Edman
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.Jim Fiebig
Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book - Of - The - Month - Club.Melvin Belli on the occasion of his getting kicked out of the American Bar Association
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
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
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.King Edward VIII
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.Mark Twain
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.John F. Kennedy
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.Jimmy Carte
In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.Marlene Dietrich
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.Ayn Rand
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.Herbert Clark Hoove
An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.Charles Darwin
There is a homely old adage which runs: Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.Theodore Roosevelt, Speech in Chicago, 3 Apr. 1903
One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.William Safire
We can now prove that large numbers of Americans are dying from sitting on their behinds.Bruce B. Dan
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
I was looking for an American symbol. A Coca - Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing anything with the American flag would have been insulting, and Cadillac hub caps were just too uncomfortable. speaking about the dress she wore made of American Express Cards.Lizzy Gardine
The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.Tom Lehre
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
