America Quotes
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
The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self - Reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.Henry Louis Mencken
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
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.Michael Caine, www. aint - It - Cool - News. com
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.Edgar Watson Howe
Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead.Sinclair Lewis
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered, The one I feed.Anonymous, As told in Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.Ronald Reagan
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.Emma Albani
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.George Santayana
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
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984
Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.Gore Vidal
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.Dwight D Eisenhowe
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Benjamin Franklin
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
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.William John Bennett
I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.Edgar Watson Howe
The chief business of the American people is business.Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.Mark Twain
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
American can do better, and help is on the way.John Kerry, speech in 2004
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.George Santayana
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.Peter Kropotkin
America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome.Rush Limbaugh
I greet you as the shapers of American society.Lyndon B. Johnson
The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America.Ty - Grace Atkinson
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.King Edward VIII
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
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
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.Jacques Martin Barzun
Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing they were dead and in heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in hell.H. L. Mencken
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.Theodore Harold White
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
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.
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 F. Kennedy
America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.George W. Bush
