America Quotes

Alexis de tocqueville, democracy in america, author alexis de tocqueville - the americans combine the notions of christianity...
Paul fussell - americans are the only people in the world known...
Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
Samuel Johnson
Ronald reagan - while i take inspiration from the past, like most...
My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.
Ronald Reagan
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
J. Bartlett Brebne
I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.
Janina Atkins
England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.
George Bernard Shaw
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
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
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
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans allBy uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
John Dickinson
I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.
Mohammed Daud Khan
No man has a right in America to treat any other man tolerantly, for tolerance is the assumption of superiority.
Wendell Willkie
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
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
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good - will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.
James Harvey Robinson
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
Bill Clinton
The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominate political mythology.
Michael Parenti
Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.
Gore Vidal
But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.
Geoffrey F. Albert
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.
Gertrude Stein
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
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
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
Henry Louis Mencken
I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.
Charles Dickens
Washington DC is the only place in America where people put bumper stickers on their cars the day *after* the election.
Cokie Roberts, TV interview in either 1992 or 1996
The great omission in American life is solitude... that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.
Marya Mannes
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear - Cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing.
Gamel Abdel Nasse
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
George Santayana
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
Woodrow Wilson
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
There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo - Americans... Each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world.
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America 1835
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.
James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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
Americans never quit.
General Douglas Macarthu
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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
The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
Phil Gramm