America Quotes
Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.Eric Nicol
Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.John Ashcroft
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
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.Dan Quayle
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
Well, it looks like the all - Star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.Jerry Coleman
Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.George Will
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 land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - From Democracy in America.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp - Looking report.Dave Barry
America - A great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far - Reaching in purpose.Herbert Hoove
The story of my boyhood and that of my brothers is important only because it could happen in any American family. It did, and will again.Earl Eisenhowe
The superiority of chocolate hot chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain...Thomas Jefferson
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.Sigmund Freud
No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet.William Safire
I epitomize America.John Denve
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
When Fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag.Huey Long
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.Ronald Reagan
America is not like a blanket - One piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt - Many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.Jesse Louis Jackson
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.George Bernard Shaw
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
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
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.Woodrow Wilson
Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.John Corry
America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.Lyndon B. Johnson
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.Carl Sandburg
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 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
I think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States. It has no following and has been disregarded by the American people for many, many years.Robert F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.George F. Will, Statecraft as Soulcraft
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876
Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness.Archibald MacLeish
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.Theodore Roosevelt
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.Clare Booth Luce
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
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
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
