America Quotes
America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.George W. Bush
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
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.Robert Francis Kennedy
No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet.William Safire
We are capable of destroying America and breaking its nose.Muammar Qaddafi
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
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
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.Will Rogers
The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell upon their knees. Then they fell upon the aborigines.(Anon.)
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
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
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.H. L. Mencken
A world in which others controlled the course of their own development... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.Benjamin Cohen
We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.Waldo Frank
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.
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.George Washington
I epitomize America.John Denve
I have one of those real old American built cars. The kind that just PUNCHES through accidents.Kevin Rooney
The chief business of the American people is business.Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - - That we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.Thomas Wolfe
The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.William Gladstone
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
America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.Lyndon B. Johnson
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July I answer A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.Frederick Douglas
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
Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.George F. Will, Statecraft as Soulcraft
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.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.Peter Ustinov
My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.Ronald Reagan
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
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
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.Georges Clemenceau
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
It could probably be show by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress.Mark Twain
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
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.
