America Quotes

I let the American people down.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Gore vidal - half of the american people have never read a...
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
Peter Kropotkin
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
Kevin rooney - i have one of those real old american built cars....
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
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
Henry Louis Mencken
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.
Tom Masson
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
Benjamin Harrison
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
An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon.
Gerald R. Ford
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
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
Mark Twain
I epitomize America.
John Denve
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James Baldwin
The American ideal is youth - - Handsome, empty youth.
Henry Mille
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 future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.
Robert Francis Kennedy
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
Peter Ustinov
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. ... The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. Announcing blockade of Cuba.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box their home, then travel the same road every day to another box their office.
Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.
Roy Blount Jr.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882
They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
Louis D. Brandeis
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
Margot Asquith
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
Bill Clinton
America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome.
Rush Limbaugh
In America, one gets as much justice as one can afford. 1966.
Charles Stanton
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George Will
The great omission in American life is solitude... that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.
Marya Mannes
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
Dwight David Eisenhowe
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
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
Albert Einstein
I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.
Henry G. Strauss
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
Dan Quayle
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.
Ayn Rand