America Quotes
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - Ask what you can do for your country.John F Kennedy
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.Dwight David Eisenhowe
The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.C. H. Cooley
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
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.E. B. White
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
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.Peter Kropotkin
America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio
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
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.Woody Allen
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.Jesse Louis Jackson
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
One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.Elmer Davis
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.Peter Ustinov
A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America.Otto von Bismarck
An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.Charles Darwin
Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.Henry M. Wriston
The 100% American is 99% an idiot.George Bernard Shaw
America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.Oscar Wilde
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, Speech in Chicago, 3 Apr. 1903
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
I was born an American I will live an American I shall die an American.Daniel Webste
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.Edward Morgan Forste
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
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.William J. Clinton
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.George Santayana
Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing they were dead and in heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in hell.H. L. Mencken
We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.Edmund White
As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.Franklin D. Roosevelt
If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot.John A. Dix
The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration, from the cautious quest for what they knew or what they thought they knew was out there, to an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown.Daniel J. Boorstin
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
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
A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own... let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - That is the right and privilege of any free American.16 Idaho Law Review 407, 420 - 1980.
