America Quotes
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 - which - we are missing.Gamal Abdel Nasse
Just what is it that America stands for If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.Woodrow Wilson
No man has a right in America to treat any other man tolerantly, for tolerance is the assumption of superiority.Wendell Willkie
Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.Alf Landon, during his speech in his presidential campaign against FDR
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.Mark Twain
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
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.A. E. Housman
At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.John Kerry, speech in New York, August 24, 2004
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.Groucho Marx
I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.Janina Atkins
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.George Washington, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789
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, Inaugural address, January 20, 1961
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty
I let the American people down.Richard Milhous Nixon
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
The 100% American is 99% an idiot.George Bernard Shaw
Qaddafi counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong.Ronald Reagan
I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.Mohammed Daud Khan
What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.Barbara Charline Jordan
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
They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.Lyndon B. Johnson
The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.Phil Gramm
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.King Edward VIII
We are capable of destroying America and breaking its nose.Muammar Qaddafi
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
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
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.Ernest Dimnet
Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.John Corry
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
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - And that yardstick is Is it good for America.Dwight D Eisenhowe
America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.George W. Bush
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
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.George Bernard Shaw
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans allBy uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.John Dickinson
Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness.Archibald MacLeish
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
If happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.William Lyon Phelps
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.Garry Trudeau
