America Quotes
An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon.Gerald R. Ford
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
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
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
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport.Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.Benjamin Harrison
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.John Adams
America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.George W. Bush
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.Virgil Thompson
A world in which others controlled the course of their own development... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.Benjamin Cohen
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
By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.George W. Bush, Speech to the United Nations, September 12, 2002
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
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars.Gerald R. Ford
American can do better, and help is on the way.John Kerry, speech in 2004
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
America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.Lyndon B. Johnson
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
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
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.Joseph Conrad
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
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
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
Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.Samuel Johnson
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.Woodrow Wilson
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
Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.Rachel Blanchard
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal".
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
The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - The principle of civilian ascendency over the military.William Orville Douglas
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.George Herbert Walker Bush
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
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.Clare Booth Luce
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.Alexis de Tocqueville
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
