America Quotes
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
A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own... let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - That is the right and privilege of any free American.16 Idaho Law Review 407, 420 - 1980.
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal".
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.Ayn Rand
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars.Gerald R. Ford
Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.Rachel Blanchard
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
It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.Woody Allen
America is not like a blanket - - One piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt - - Many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.Henry M. Jackson
Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.George Will
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
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.Peter Ustinov
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2, 000 years from now when they study this civilization the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.Gerald Early
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.Margaret Thatche
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - To surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.Thomas Jefferson
It could probably be show by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress.Mark Twain
The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.Jim Hightowe
American soldiers must be turned into lambs and eating them is tolerated.Muammar Qaddafi
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.Georges Clemenceau
I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose... that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans.William Jefferson Clinton
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
A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America.Otto von Bismarck
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
There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.Mark Twain
There is a need for heroism in American life today.Vicki Baum
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
There are three social classes in America upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.Judith Martin
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
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.William John Bennett
This American system of ours... call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.Al Capone
The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide - Open spaces surrounded by teeth.Charles Luckman
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.Herbert Clark Hoove
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 land of wide lawns and narrow minds.Ernest Hemingway
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.H. L. Mencken
Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.Eric Nicol
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.James T. Farrell
