America Quotes

Rev. francis j. spellman, archbishop of new york. 22 september, 1940 - we americans want peace, and it is now evident...
William safire - one difference between french appeasement and...
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
George Santayana
What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.
Barbara Charline Jordan
American soldiers must be turned into lambs and eating them is tolerated.
Muammar Qaddafi
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
Jacques Martin Barzun
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
Oscar wilde - america is the only country that went from...
Qaddafi counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong.
Ronald Reagan
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882
There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain
I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.
Ronald Reagan, Nov. 5, 1994
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
Tonight - To you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. On his Vietnam War policy.
Richard Milhous Nixon
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
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
Elizabeth II
The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
Irwin Edman
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
If I were to select a jack - Booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF.
John Dingell
An American will tinker with anything he can put his hands on. But how rarely can he be persuaded to tinker with an abstract idea.
Leland Stowe
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.
Mary Ellen Kelly
Americans never quit.
General Douglas Macarthu
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans allBy uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
John Dickinson
When even one American - - who has done nothing wrong - - Is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - - Then all Americans are in peril.
Harry S Truman
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
Woody Allen
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
William John Bennett
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
Reubin Askew
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
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
John Updike, Problems and Other Stories
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.
If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot.
John A. Dix
An American is a man with two arms and four wheels.
A Chinese Child
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
Ernest Dimnet
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
I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.
Mohammed Daud Khan
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
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
Theodore Harold White
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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan