America Quotes
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
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.Gertrude Stein
If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot.John A. Dix
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.Jim Fiebig
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
There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.Mark Twain
The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.Gunnar Myrdal
Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly... to revere God and be God.Daniel J. Boorstin
Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.Rachel Blanchard
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes".
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Benjamin Franklin
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.George Frost Kennan
By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.George W. Bush, Speech to the United Nations, September 12, 2002
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.Lillian Hellman
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty
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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.Joseph Conrad
American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.Elinor Glyn
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 was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.Harry S Truman
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.Woodrow Wilson
I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.George W. Bush, September 2, 2004, The Republican National Convention, N. Y.
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
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
Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.George Walker Bush
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.Edward Morgan Forste
The political lesson of Watergate is this Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by - Pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.Gerald R. Ford
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.H. L. Mencken
I greet you as the shapers of American society.Lyndon B. Johnson
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - Men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.Dwight D Eisenhowe
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.William Golding
America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.Oscar Wilde
The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises - It is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook - It holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration, from the cautious quest for what they knew or what they thought they knew was out there, to an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown.Daniel J. Boorstin
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.Walt Whitman
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
