America Quotes
America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.George W. Bush
A world in which others controlled the course of their own development... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.Benjamin Cohen
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The 100% American is 99% an idiot.George Bernard Shaw
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
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
Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.George F. Will, Statecraft as Soulcraft
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.J. Bartlett Brebne
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.Arnold Toynbee
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.John Adams
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
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.Peter Ustinov
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 has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.George W. Bush, Inaugural address, 2001
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. On the Vietnam Wa.Richard Milhous Nixon
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.
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
If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.George W. Bush
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you - - Ask what you can do for your country.John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.Emma Albani
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.George Herbert Walker Bush
America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.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.
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
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.
Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly... to revere God and be God.Daniel J. Boorstin
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.H. L. Mencken
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.Robert Francis Kennedy
An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.Charles Darwin
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
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.Virgil Thompson
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
We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940
Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.Margaret Thatche
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.John F. Kennedy
The American sign of civic progress is to tear down the familiar and erect the monstrous.Shane Leslie
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
