America Quotes

Sinclair lewis - intellectually, i know that america is no better...
Mark twain - it could probably be show by facts and figures...
Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.
Allen Ginsberg
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
Georges Clemenceau
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
Dan Quayle
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain
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
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
Sigmund Freud
Richard milhous nixon - i have never been a quitter. to leave office...
We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.
Waldo Frank
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
Marya Mannes
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
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
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.
John Corry
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self - Conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under - Value them.
Henry James
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
Thomas Jefferson
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Carl Sandburg
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
Edgar Watson Howe
Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.
Mike Royko, columnist
When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
There is a homely old adage which runs: Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.
Theodore Roosevelt, Speech in Chicago, 3 Apr. 1903
American soldiers must be turned into lambs and eating them is tolerated.
Muammar Qaddafi
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.
Jim Fiebig
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
George Santayana
When even one American - - who has done nothing wrong - - Is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - - Then all Americans are in peril.
Harry S Truman
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
John Updike, Problems and Other Stories
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
A. E. Housman
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
An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon.
Gerald R. Ford
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore Vidal
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
Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
George F. Will, Statecraft as Soulcraft
The 100% American is 99% an idiot.
George Bernard Shaw
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.
William O. Douglas
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 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
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
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
H. L. Mencken