America Quotes

I greet you as the shapers of American society.

Lyndon B. Johnson

And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp - Looking report.

Dave Barry

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

As an anti - American, I thank you for your rotten article devoted to my person.

Prince Sihanouk in a letter to Time magazine

Washington DC is the only place in America where people put bumper stickers on their cars the day *after* the election.

Cokie Roberts, TV interview in either 1992 or 1996

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

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

Louis D. Brandeis

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.

Mark Twain

In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

Mark Twain

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

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

Andy Rooney

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

Bill Clinton

The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.

William Fullbright

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

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

William John Bennett

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.

Charles Dickens

American soldiers must be turned into lambs and eating them is tolerated.

Muammar Qaddafi

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Bob Dylan

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

Americans never quit.

General Douglas Macarthu

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

Robert Francis Kennedy

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.

Mary Ellen Kelly

I have one of those real old American built cars. The kind that just PUNCHES through accidents.

Kevin Rooney

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

Camille Paglia

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July I answer A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.

Frederick Douglas

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

John Gunthe

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

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

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

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

Life is very important to Americans.

Bob Dole

An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Charles Darwin

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

Unknown

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

H. L. Mencken

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