America Quotes

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

John Barrymore

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.

Luigi Barzini

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

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July I answer A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.

Frederick Douglas

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

Paul Fussell

The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

William Gladstone

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

James T. Farrell

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

George Santayana

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

Dwight D Eisenhowe

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

John Ciardi

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

America - A great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far - Reaching in purpose.

Herbert Hoove

America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.

George W. Bush

There is a need for heroism in American life today.

Vicki Baum

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, Ours.

Father Andrew SDC

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

Andy Rooney

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

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

Mark Twain

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.

Groucho Marx

The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.

Robert Francis Kennedy

Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.

Samuel Johnson

I was born an American I will live an American I shall die an American.

Daniel Webste

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal".

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

Daniel Webste

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - A sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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 chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925

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.

Henry M. Jackson

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

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

Clare Booth Luce

American soldiers must be turned into lambs and eating them is tolerated.

Muammar Qaddafi

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

H. L. Mencken

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

A. E. Housman

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

E. B. White

A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America.

Otto von Bismarck

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

W. Somerset Maugham