America Quotes

I epitomize America.

John Denve

We can now prove that large numbers of Americans are dying from sitting on their behinds.

Bruce B. Dan

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

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president.

Gerald R. Ford

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - From Democracy in America.

Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

Herbert Clark Hoove

The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - The principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

William Orville Douglas

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

American soldiers must be turned into lambs and eating them is tolerated.

Muammar Qaddafi

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused? preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999

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

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

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

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

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - Indeed, inevitable - The United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.

Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth.

David Frost

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

E. B. White

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

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

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

George Bernard Shaw

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Margaret Thatche

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

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

H. L. Mencken

I have one of those real old American built cars. The kind that just PUNCHES through accidents.

Kevin Rooney

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

Will Rogers

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

Jim Hightowe

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 Fitzgerald Kennedy

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.

George Will

Tonight - To you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. On his Vietnam War policy.

Richard Milhous Nixon

The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.

Gunnar Myrdal

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

Indignation boils my blood at the thought of the heritage we are throwing away; at the thought that, with few exceptions, the fight for freedom is left to the poor, forlorn and defenseless, and to the few radicals and revolutionaries who would make use of liberty to destroy, rather than to maintain, American institutions.

Arthur Garfield Hays

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

Arnold Toynbee

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

Bill Clinton