America Quotes

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

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

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.

George Will

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

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Margot Asquith

I think there are only three things America will be known for 2, 000 years from now when they study this civilization the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.

Gerald Early

For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wants her to succeed as much as she does.

Cathleen Douglas

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: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

Garry Trudeau

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

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Carl Sandburg

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

Jimmy Carte

I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.

Mohammed Daud Khan

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

Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Sinclair Lewis

No man has a right in America to treat any other man tolerantly, for tolerance is the assumption of superiority.

Wendell Willkie

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This American system of ours... call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Al Capone

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear - Cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves, which leave us to wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them that we are missing.

Gamel Abdel Nasse

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

Herbert Clark Hoove

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

H. L. Mencken

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

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

Gore Vidal

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

Charles De Gaulle

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Gore Vidal

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

Mike Royko, columnist

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

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

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

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

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

If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

George W. Bush

Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.

Alf Landon, during his speech in his presidential campaign against FDR

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

William John Bennett

The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

Phil Gramm

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

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Harry S Truman

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.

Emma Albani