America Quotes
As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.Peter Ustinov
Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.Samuel Johnson
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
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.Van Wyck Brooks
America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.George W. Bush
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty
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
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.George Bernard Shaw
We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.Waldo Frank
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
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - To surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.Thomas Jefferson
America is not like a blanket - - One piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt - - Many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.Henry M. Jackson
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.Oscar Wilde
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.George Will
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot.John A. Dix
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
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
There is a need for heroism in American life today.Vicki Baum
I hope that no American... will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.W. Somerset Maugham
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
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.King Edward VIII
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
America is a young country with an old mentality.George Santayana
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.J. Bartlett Brebne
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
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.H. L. Mencken
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
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 American sign of civic progress is to tear down the familiar and erect the monstrous.Shane Leslie
As an anti - American, I thank you for your rotten article devoted to my person.Prince Sihanouk in a letter to Time magazine
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.Garry Trudeau
