America Quotes

I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

James Thurbe

There is a need for heroism in American life today.

Vicki Baum

The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.

George Frost Kennan

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Proposal to reform welfare programs.

Richard Milhous Nixon

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

Lillian Hellman

When Fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag.

Huey Long

In America, one gets as much justice as one can afford. 1966.

Charles Stanton

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

George Bernard Shaw

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

The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self - Reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.

Henry Louis Mencken

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

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

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

A. E. Housman

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

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.

Mark Twain

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

Jacques Martin Barzun

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

Oscar Wilde

Qaddafi counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong.

Ronald Reagan

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

Clare Booth Luce

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

Dan Quayle

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

George Santayana

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

Ayn Rand

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Bob Dylan

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

Henry Louis Mencken

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Walt Whitman

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Ronald Reagan

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

Thomas Jefferson

One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.

William Safire

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

Daniel Webste

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.

Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876

America is a young country with an old mentality.

George Santayana

I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out, and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.

Tony Blai

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