America Quotes
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - Ask what you can do for your country.John F Kennedy
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
Anglo - Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.William Jennings Bryan
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans allBy uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.John Dickinson
There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.Phil Gramm
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.Jesse Louis Jackson
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.Walt Whitman
No man has a right in America to treat any other man tolerantly, for tolerance is the assumption of superiority.Wendell Willkie
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.E. B. White
If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot.John A. Dix
The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen.John Sloan Dickey
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.Arnold Toynbee
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
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.Garry Trudeau
When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the American flag.Huey Long
America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.Gore Vidal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.Albert Einstein
I have one of those real old American built cars. The kind that just PUNCHES through accidents.Kevin Rooney
In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.Marlene Dietrich
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
It could probably be show by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress.Mark Twain
I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.Janina Atkins
America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.Alexis de Tocqueville
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.Herbert Clark Hoove
Life is very important to Americans.Bob Dole
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.Henry David Thoreau
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - A date which will live on in infamy - The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941
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
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.Daniel Webste
My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.Ronald Reagan
Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.Mike Royko, columnist
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.Margaret Thatche
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.Jimmy Carte
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.A. E. Housman
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".
