America Quotes
Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.Eric Nicol
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - To surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.Thomas Jefferson
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.Margaret Thatche
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.Paul Fussell
America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.Alexis de Tocqueville
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.Henry David Thoreau
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
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 will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.George W. Bush
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.J. Bartlett Brebne
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
Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.George F. Will, Statecraft as Soulcraft
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.George Bernard Shaw
There is a homely old adage which runs: Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.Theodore Roosevelt, Speech in Chicago, 3 Apr. 1903
We can have no 50 - 50 allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.Teddy Roosevelt
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.Walt Whitman
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.Herbert Clark Hoove
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
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.Oscar Wilde
Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.Gore Vidal
An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon.Gerald R. Ford
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 F. Kennedy
They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight.Roger Rosenblatt
When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.Adlai Ewing Stevenson
England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.George Bernard Shaw
There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo - Americans... Each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world.Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America 1835
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.Will Rogers
The things that will destroy America are prosperity - At - Any - Price, safety - First instead of duty - First, the love of soft living, and the get - Rich - Quick theory of life.Theodore Roosevelt
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.Lyndon B. Johnson
America - A great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far - Reaching in purpose.Herbert Hoove
The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration, from the cautious quest for what they knew or what they thought they knew was out there, to an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown.Daniel J. Boorstin
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.Richard Milhous Nixon
America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - From Democracy in America.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
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
The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - The principle of civilian ascendency over the military.William Orville Douglas
Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.Henry M. Wriston
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.Theodore Harold White
In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.Geoffrey Cottrell
