America Quotes

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo - Americans... Each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America 1835

Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen.

David Dean Rusk

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live 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

Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.

Alf Landon, during his speech in his presidential campaign against FDR

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.

Woodrow Wilson

The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

John F. Kennedy

On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - Halftime.

Unknown

I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American.

A. F. Shaw

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. That is what makes America what it is.

Gertrude Stein, The Geographical History of America (1936)

The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - The principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

William Orville Douglas

A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - Indeed, inevitable - The United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.

Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

Life is very important to Americans.

Bob Dole

America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

The great omission in American life is solitude... that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.

Marya Mannes

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well - wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.

John Quincy Adams

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

Georges Clemenceau

We can have no 50 - 50 allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

Teddy Roosevelt

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

American can do better, and help is on the way.

John Kerry, speech in 2004

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

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

In order to be able to live in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.

Alice Walke

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

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

J. Bartlett Brebne