America Quotes
Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens.Woodrow Wilson
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
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.Sigmund Freud
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.Margot Asquith
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.Jimmy Carte
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
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.Ronald Reagan
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.Jesse Louis Jackson
Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.Margaret Thatche
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
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
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
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
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 sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.Marlene Dietrich
And so, my fellow americans ask not what your country can do for you - Ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.John F. Kennedy
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
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, Ours.Father Andrew SDC
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.Arnold Toynbee
America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.Oscar Wilde
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.James Baldwin
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
The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide - Open spaces surrounded by teeth.Charles Luckman
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.Joseph Conrad
The story of my boyhood and that of my brothers is important only because it could happen in any American family. It did, and will again.Earl Eisenhowe
Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.Samuel Johnson
The chief business of the American people is business.Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925
The American sign of civic progress is to tear down the familiar and erect the monstrous.Shane Leslie
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.Reubin Askew
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.John Barrymore
I think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States. It has no following and has been disregarded by the American people for many, many years.Robert F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.Daniel Webste
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.Dwight D Eisenhowe
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.George Santayana
America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
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
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.Peter Ustinov
