America Quotes

Melvin belli on the occasion of his getting kicked out of the american bar association - getting kicked out of the american bar...
Gore vidal - half of the american people have never read a...
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
Hunter S. Thompson
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
Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.
John Ashcroft
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
We can have no 50 - 50 allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
Teddy Roosevelt
George w. bush, speech, november 19, 1999 - american foreign policy must be more than the...
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
America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.
George W. Bush, Inaugural address, 2001
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
J. Bartlett Brebne
The things that will destroy America are prosperity - At - Any - Price, safety - First instead of duty - First, the love of soft living, and the get - Rich - Quick theory of life.
Theodore Roosevelt
Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
George Will
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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
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 we are missing.
Gamel Abdel Nasse
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.
Jimmy Carte
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Oscar Wilde
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
Herbert Clark Hoove
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
Albert Einstein
There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo - Americans... Each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world.
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America 1835
America, why are your libraries full of tears?
Allen Ginsberg
The 100% American is 99% an idiot.
George Bernard Shaw
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
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
I love America. You always hurt the one you love.
David Frye impersonating Nixon
The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominate political mythology.
Michael Parenti
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un - American act that could most easily defeat us.
William Orville Douglas
The American sign of civic progress is to tear down the familiar and erect the monstrous.
Shane Leslie
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
Marya Mannes
I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.
Theodore Roosevelt
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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 love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James Baldwin
Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.
Gore Vidal
The deepest American dream is not the hunger for money or fame it is the dream of settling down, in peace and freedom and cooperation, in the promised land.
Scott Russell Sanders
It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
Woody Allen
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
Clare Booth Luce
An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon.
Gerald R. Ford