America Quotes
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.Jacques Martin Barzun
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.Woodrow Wilson
Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.Luigi Barzini
I was born an American I will live an American I shall die an American.Daniel Webste
The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.Gunnar Myrdal
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.Albert Einstein, 1929
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.Edward Morgan Forste
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.Carl Sandburg
America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome.Rush Limbaugh
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.Peter Ustinov
If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot.John A. Dix
When even one American - - who has done nothing wrong - - Is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - - Then all Americans are in peril.Harry S Truman
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused? preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
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
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.H. L. Mencken
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.George Will
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered, The one I feed.Anonymous, As told in Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
There is a need for heroism in American life today.Vicki Baum
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
Tonight - To you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. On his Vietnam War policy.Richard Milhous Nixon
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live 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
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
The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.George Frost Kennan
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.George Will
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.Ronald Reagan
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.William J. Clinton
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet.William Safire
If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.George W. Bush
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984
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
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
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.Hunter S. Thompson
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
I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.Ronald Reagan, Nov. 5, 1994
