America Quotes

Edgar watson howe - i express many absurd opinions, but i am not the...
When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Americans become unhappy and vicious because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.
Philip Saltie
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
Otto von bismarck - a special providence protects fools, drunkards,...
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
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
William John Bennett
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
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Richard Milhous Nixon
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
Thomas Jefferson
When Fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag.
Huey Long
George w. bush - america will never seek a permission slip to...
American soldiers must be turned into lambs and eating them is tolerated.
Muammar Qaddafi
The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
John F. Kennedy
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
Dan Quayle
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
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
Robert Francis Kennedy
Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.
John Corry
But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.
Geoffrey F. Albert
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
They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
Edgar Watson Howe
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
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]
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
Georges Clemenceau
We are capable of destroying America and breaking its nose.
Muammar Qaddafi
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
Daniel Webste
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
Qaddafi counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong.
Ronald Reagan
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
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.
Carl Sandburg
As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Peter Ustinov
I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American.
A. F. Shaw
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
Henry Louis Mencken
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.
Gertrude Stein
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
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