America Quotes
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.Marya Mannes
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
Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.George Will
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.H. L. Mencken
I hope that no American... will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.Gore Vidal
Indignation boils my blood at the thought of the heritage we are throwing away; at the thought that, with few exceptions, the fight for freedom is left to the poor, forlorn and defenseless, and to the few radicals and revolutionaries who would make use of liberty to destroy, rather than to maintain, American institutions.Arthur Garfield Hays
The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.Phil Gramm
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport.Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose... that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans.William Jefferson Clinton
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.Arnold Toynbee
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.George Bernard Shaw
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.Henry Louis Mencken
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.Ernest Hemingway
A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own... let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - That is the right and privilege of any free American.16 Idaho Law Review 407, 420 - 1980.
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.Bob Dylan
Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.John Corry
I greet you as the shapers of American society.Lyndon B. Johnson
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. ... The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. Announcing blockade of Cuba.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide - Open spaces surrounded by teeth.Charles Luckman
The deepest American dream is not the hunger for money or fame it is the dream of settling down, in peace and freedom and cooperation, in the promised land.Scott Russell Sanders
Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.Henry M. Wriston
Qaddafi counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong.Ronald Reagan
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.Ronald Reagan
In America, one gets as much justice as one can afford. 1966.Charles Stanton
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.Sigmund Freud
All American cars are basically Chevrolets.Herb Caen
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need.John Dewey
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
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.John Adams
One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.Elmer Davis
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.Richard Milhous Nixon
America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.Alexis de Tocqueville
