America Quotes
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Proposal to reform welfare programs.Richard Milhous Nixon
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 report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.Lyndon B. Johnson
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
I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.Janina Atkins
The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell upon their knees. Then they fell upon the aborigines.(Anon.)
America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.Lyndon B. Johnson
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
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.Daniel Webste
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.George Santayana
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.Gloria Steinem
An American will tinker with anything he can put his hands on. But how rarely can he be persuaded to tinker with an abstract idea.Leland Stowe
American can do better, and help is on the way.John Kerry, speech in 2004
When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the American flag.Huey Long
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - A sense of humor and a sense of proportion.Franklin D. Roosevelt
The superiority of chocolate hot chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain...Thomas Jefferson
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.Benjamin Harrison
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 great omission in American life is solitude... that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.Marya Mannes
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.Edmund White
All American cars are basically Chevrolets.Herb Caen
In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.Marlene Dietrich
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.Hunter S. Thompson
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - - That we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.Thomas Wolfe
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.George Will
One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.William Safire
America is a young country with an old mentality.George Santayana
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.George Bernard Shaw
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
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.Walt Whitman
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
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.Peter Kropotkin
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.George Bernard Shaw
American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good - will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.James Harvey Robinson
The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self - Reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.Henry Louis Mencken
We Americans live in a nation where the medical - Care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.Dave Barry
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
