America Quotes
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.Benjamin Harrison
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.James T. Farrell
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, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961
On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - Halftime.Unknown
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.Camille Paglia
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.Albert Einstein
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
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
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.Georges Clemenceau
Life is very important to Americans.Bob Dole
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.Margot Asquith
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.Margot Asquith
Washington DC is the only place in America where people put bumper stickers on their cars the day *after* the election.Cokie Roberts, TV interview in either 1992 or 1996
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.Joseph Conrad
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well - wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.John Quincy Adams
Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.Allen Ginsberg
A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own... let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - That is the right and privilege of any free American.16 Idaho Law Review 407, 420 - 1980.
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.John Barrymore
In order to be able to live in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.Alice Walke
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - A sense of humor and a sense of proportion.Franklin D. Roosevelt
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.Peter Ustinov
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.Theodore Harold White
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.Sinclair Lewis
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
American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good - will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.James Harvey Robinson
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.Walt Whitman
The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.Elizabeth II
All American cars are basically Chevrolets.Herb Caen
American can do better, and help is on the way.John Kerry, speech in 2004
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.Woody Allen
Americans never quit.General Douglas Macarthu
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - A date which will live on 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, Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
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
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
I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.George W. Bush, September 2, 2004, The Republican National Convention, N. Y.
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.Charlotte Perkins Gilman
