America Quotes

Lyndon b. johnson - i greet you as the shapers of american society....
Thomas wolfe - perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox...
America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
Ernest Hemingway
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
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
H. L. Mencken
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un - American act that could most easily defeat us.
William Orville Douglas
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
George Will
All American cars are basically Chevrolets.
Herb Caen
Kurt vonnegut, jr. - high school is closer to the core of the american...
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
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need.
John Dewey
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
William Golding
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear - Cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves, which leave us to wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them that we are missing.
Gamel Abdel Nasse
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
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
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
J. Bartlett Brebne
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
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.
Groucho Marx
Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.
Luigi Barzini
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
Woodrow Wilson
The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell upon their knees. Then they fell upon the aborigines.
(Anon.)
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
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
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
Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
George Will
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.
Emma Albani
Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.
Gore Vidal
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Walt Whitman
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".
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
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.
Elija Lovejoy
I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose... that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans.
William Jefferson Clinton
In order to be able to live in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.
Alice Walke
The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen.
John Sloan Dickey
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
No man has a right in America to treat any other man tolerantly, for tolerance is the assumption of superiority.
Wendell Willkie
I have one of those real old American built cars. The kind that just PUNCHES through accidents.
Kevin Rooney
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
W. Somerset Maugham