America Quotes

Americans become unhappy and vicious because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.

Philip Saltie

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

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

Ernest Hemingway

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July I answer A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.

Frederick Douglas

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - To surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Thomas Jefferson

America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

Garry Trudeau

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

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Oscar Wilde

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

David Frost

In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.

Marlene Dietrich

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

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

George Walker Bush

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Harry S Truman

America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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 American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

William Gladstone

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

George Bernard Shaw

As an anti - American, I thank you for your rotten article devoted to my person.

Prince Sihanouk in a letter to Time magazine

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

Gore Vidal

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

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

Andy Rooney

Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen.

David Dean Rusk

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Edgar Watson Howe

We Americans know - Although others appear to forget - The risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Albert Einstein, 1929

Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

Rachel Blanchard

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

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.

Gertrude Stein

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

Edgar Watson Howe

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

Hunter S. Thompson

I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.

Charles Dickens

I was looking for an American symbol. A Coca - Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing anything with the American flag would have been insulting, and Cadillac hub caps were just too uncomfortable. speaking about the dress she wore made of American Express Cards.

Lizzy Gardine

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

Georges Clemenceau

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Will Rogers