America Quotes

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
Ernest Dimnet
John f. kennedy, inaugural address, january 20, 1961 - and so, my fellow americans: ask not what your...
Adlai e. stevenson jr. - there is a new america every morning when we wake...
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
A chinese child - an american is a man with two arms and four...
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
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
Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.
Gore Vidal
When Fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag.
Huey Long
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
America - A great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far - Reaching in purpose.
Herbert Hoove
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
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
Sigmund Freud
They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight.
Roger Rosenblatt
America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.
George W. Bush
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
Herbert Clark Hoove
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.
In America, one gets as much justice as one can afford. 1966.
Charles Stanton
As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
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
America, why are your libraries full of tears?
Allen Ginsberg
Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
Rachel Blanchard
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
Arnold Toynbee
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
Mark Twain
I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.
Mohammed Daud Khan
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
E. B. White
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
George Santayana
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
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport.
Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
Arnold Toynbee
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
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
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
Bob Dylan
America is a young country with an old mentality.
George Santayana
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
Robert Francis Kennedy