America Quotes
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.James T. Farrell
And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - Ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.John F. Kennedy, Inaugural address, January 20, 1961
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.Ronald Reagan
On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - Halftime.Unknown
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.John Updike, Problems and Other Stories
The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises - It is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook - It holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.Mike Royko, columnist
Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.Alf Landon, during his speech in his presidential campaign against FDR
I love America. You always hurt the one you love.David Frye impersonating Nixon
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
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.Dwight D Eisenhowe
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 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
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
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.
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.Daniel Webste
If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot.John A. Dix
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.Margaret Thatche
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
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, Ours.Father Andrew SDC
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.Joseph Conrad
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
My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president.Gerald R. Ford
The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.Sigmund Freud
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
America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
I think on - Stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.Shelley Winters
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.Paul Fussell
The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.Phil Gramm
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
American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good - will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.James Harvey Robinson
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
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.William J. Clinton
We can now prove that large numbers of Americans are dying from sitting on their behinds.Bruce B. Dan
The political lesson of Watergate is this Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by - Pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.Gerald R. Ford
