America Quotes

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

Huey Long

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.

Elmer Davis

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

Gore Vidal

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

Gore Vidal

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self - Conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under - Value them.

Henry James

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

Ernest Hemingway

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

The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell upon their knees. Then they fell upon the aborigines.

(Anon.)

Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly... to revere God and be God.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing they were dead and in heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in hell.

H. L. Mencken

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

My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.

Ronald Reagan

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

Marya Mannes

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

David Riesman

American can do better, and help is on the way.

John Kerry, speech in 2004

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president.

Gerald R. Ford

The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

Tom Lehre

But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.

Geoffrey F. Albert

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

Arnold Toynbee

There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Mark Twain

If I were to select a jack - Booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF.

John Dingell

All American cars are basically Chevrolets.

Herb Caen

The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America.

Ty - Grace Atkinson

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

Gertrude Stein, The Geographical History of America (1936)

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

Rachel Blanchard

The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen.

John Sloan Dickey

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

Henry Louis Mencken

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

There are three social classes in America upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

Judith Martin

Well, it looks like the all - Star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.

Jerry Coleman

When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the American flag.

Huey Long

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Carl Sagan

America is a young country with an old mentality.

George Santayana

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - - That we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

Thomas Wolfe

It could probably be show by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress.

Mark Twain

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 we are missing.

Gamel Abdel Nasse

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

Herbert Clark Hoove

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 Fitzgerald Kennedy