America Quotes
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
The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.C. H. Cooley
We Americans live in a nation where the medical - Care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.Dave Barry
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
I greet you as the shapers of American society.Lyndon B. Johnson
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.George Santayana
I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.Janina Atkins
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.Harry S Truman
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.Lillian Hellman
An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.Charles Darwin
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
The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises - It is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook - It holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Proposal to reform welfare programs.Richard Milhous Nixon
America is a young country with an old mentality.George Santayana
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.Shirley Mount Hufstedle
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
America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.Ernest Hemingway
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.Andy Rooney
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.Mark Twain
America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.Oscar Wilde
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 in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.Thomas Jefferson
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.Oscar Wilde
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.Georges Clemenceau
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
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.Clare Booth Luce
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.Theodore Roosevelt
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.E. B. White
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
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.Albert Einstein
The superiority of chocolate hot chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain...Thomas Jefferson
America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.Lyndon B. Johnson
If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot.John A. Dix
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.James T. Farrell
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.Hunter S. Thompson
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 - which - we are missing.Gamal Abdel Nasse
Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.Eric Nicol
I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.George W. Bush, September 2, 2004, The Republican National Convention, N. Y.
