America Quotes

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - And that yardstick is Is it good for America.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Harry S Truman

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

There are three social classes in America upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

Judith Martin

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

Reubin Askew

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

Tom Masson

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

Edmund White

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

C. H. Cooley

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Ronald Reagan

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

Georges Clemenceau

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

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

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Proposal to reform welfare programs.

Richard Milhous Nixon

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

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

Mike Royko, columnist

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

Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.

John Corry

Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.

Alf Landon, during his speech in his presidential campaign against FDR

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 Fitzgerald Kennedy

Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead.

Sinclair Lewis

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

On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - Halftime.

Unknown

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

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

Herbert Clark Hoove

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president.

Gerald R. Ford

If I were to select a jack - Booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF.

John Dingell

An American is a man with two arms and four wheels.

A Chinese Child

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

Arnold Toynbee

The American sign of civic progress is to tear down the familiar and erect the monstrous.

Shane Leslie

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Margaret Thatche

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

William J. Clinton

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

Clare Booth Luce

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

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.

George Will

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

David Riesman

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

Arnold Toynbee

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy