America Quotes
My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president.Gerald R. Ford
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear - Cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves, which leave us to wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them that we are missing.Gamel Abdel Nasse
The American ideal is youth - - Handsome, empty youth.Henry Mille
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.Thomas Jefferson
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.Reubin Askew
What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.Barbara Charline Jordan
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.John F. Kennedy
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 - which - we are missing.Gamal Abdel Nasse
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.Oscar Wilde
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.Mike Royko, columnist
A world in which others controlled the course of their own development... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.Benjamin Cohen
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
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.George Will
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
The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell upon their knees. Then they fell upon the aborigines.(Anon.)
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
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.H. L. Mencken
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.George Washington
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box their home, then travel the same road every day to another box their office.Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.George Washington, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.Robert Francis Kennedy
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
Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.Margaret Thatche
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.George Herbert Walker Bush
Americans never quit.General Douglas Macarthu
As an anti - American, I thank you for your rotten article devoted to my person.Prince Sihanouk in a letter to Time magazine
I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.Charles Dickens
I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly There is a tendency for the world to say to America, the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out, and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.Tony Blai
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.Albert Einstein
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.Gloria Steinem
The things that will destroy America are prosperity - At - Any - Price, safety - First instead of duty - First, the love of soft living, and the get - Rich - Quick theory of life.Theodore Roosevelt
I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.Henry G. Strauss
I think on - Stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.Shelley Winters
