America Quotes
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
Qaddafi counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong.Ronald Reagan
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.Gore Vidal
The things that will destroy America are prosperity - At - Any - Price, safety - First instead of duty - First, the love of soft living, and the get - Rich - Quick theory of life.Theodore Roosevelt
Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead.Sinclair Lewis
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
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
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.E. B. White
We can have no 50 - 50 allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.Teddy Roosevelt
America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.George W. Bush
A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America.Otto von Bismarck
Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.John Corry
No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet.William Safire
The chief business of the American people is business.Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925
What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.Barbara Charline Jordan
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
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
Americans never quit.General Douglas Macarthu
All American cars are basically Chevrolets.Herb Caen
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self - Conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under - Value them.Henry James
America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.Alexis de Tocqueville
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
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.Henry David Thoreau
No man has a right in America to treat any other man tolerantly, for tolerance is the assumption of superiority.Wendell Willkie
We are capable of destroying America and breaking its nose.Muammar Qaddafi
The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.Irwin Edman
It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.Woody Allen
There are three social classes in America upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.Judith Martin
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
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
The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.Tom Lehre
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.John Ciardi
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
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
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear - Cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them - which - we are missing.Gamal Abdel Nasse
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
There is a homely old adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.Theodore Roosevelt
