America Quotes
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.Albert Einstein
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.Charles De Gaulle
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.William O. Douglas
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
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.Sinclair Lewis
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.Sinclair Lewis
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - A sense of humor and a sense of proportion.Franklin D. Roosevelt
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal".
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Proposal to reform welfare programs.Richard Milhous Nixon
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.Georges Clemenceau
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.George Bernard Shaw
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
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.Gertrude Stein
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
American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.Elinor Glyn
I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American.A. F. Shaw
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
We Americans live in a nation where the medical - Care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.Dave Barry
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.Shirley Mount Hufstedle
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first... Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.Richard Milhous Nixon
I was looking for an American symbol. A Coca - Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing anything with the American flag would have been insulting, and Cadillac hub caps were just too uncomfortable. speaking about the dress she wore made of American Express Cards.Lizzy Gardine
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
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.W. Somerset Maugham
Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.Allen Ginsberg
The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money - - Then make money with money - - Then make lots of money with lots of money.Paul Erdman
Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead.Sinclair Lewis
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well - wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.John Quincy Adams
The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.William Gladstone
Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen.David Dean Rusk
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.William O. Douglas
For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wants her to succeed as much as she does.Cathleen Douglas
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
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
