America Quotes

I epitomize America.

John Denve

I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out, and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.

Tony Blai

During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.

Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

Theodore Harold White

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. ... The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. Announcing blockade of Cuba.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused? preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999

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 F. Kennedy

America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth.

David Frost

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

Edgar Watson Howe

I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

James Thurbe

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

George Bernard Shaw

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.

George Santayana

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

William J. Clinton

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Carl Sandburg

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

George Frost Kennan

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

Daniel Webste

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

Eric Nicol

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, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789

Well, it looks like the all - Star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.

Jerry Coleman

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

Henry Louis Mencken

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.

George Will

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

Herbert Clark Hoove

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

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

Bill Clinton

If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot.

John A. Dix

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Oscar Wilde

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

Elizabeth II

I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.

Mohammed Daud Khan

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

Robert Francis Kennedy

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Ronald Reagan

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

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

There are three social classes in America upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

Judith Martin