America Quotes
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.H. L. Mencken
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
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.William Golding
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
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.
I epitomize America.John Denve
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
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.George Santayana
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. On the Vietnam Wa.Richard Milhous Nixon
As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.Elija Lovejoy
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.George Frost Kennan
We Americans know - Although others appear to forget - The risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam.Lyndon B. Johnson
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
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
I love America. You always hurt the one you love.David Frye impersonating Nixon
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
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.Clare Booth Luce
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.Emma Albani
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self - Reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.Henry Louis Mencken
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.Thomas Jefferson
The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.Irwin Edman
America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.Lyndon B. Johnson
I hope that no American... will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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
In America, one gets as much justice as one can afford. 1966.Charles Stanton
America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth.David Frost
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We can now prove that large numbers of Americans are dying from sitting on their behinds.Bruce B. Dan
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.E. B. White
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.Jim Fiebig
A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own... let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - That is the right and privilege of any free American.16 Idaho Law Review 407, 420 - 1980.
Anglo - Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.William Jennings Bryan
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.
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
An American is a man with two arms and four wheels.A Chinese Child
