America Quotes

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925

In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.

Marlene Dietrich

Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book - Of - The - Month - Club.

Melvin Belli on the occasion of his getting kicked out of the American Bar Association

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

George Bernard Shaw

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Albert Einstein, 1929

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

Gore Vidal

America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.

Oscar Wilde

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

What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.

Barbara Charline Jordan

The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

Phil Gramm

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

Herbert Clark Hoove

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

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

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

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

Tom Masson

I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose... that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans.

William Jefferson Clinton

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

I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.

Mohammed Daud Khan

I think on - Stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

Shelley Winters

In America, one gets as much justice as one can afford. 1966.

Charles Stanton

We are capable of destroying America and breaking its nose.

Muammar Qaddafi

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

Daniel Webste

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

H. L. Mencken

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 F. Kennedy

As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Gerald R. Ford

I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out, and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.

Tony Blai

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

Margaret Thatche

If I were to select a jack - Booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF.

John Dingell

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

Henry Louis Mencken

Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.

Alf Landon, during his speech in his presidential campaign against FDR

Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens.

Woodrow Wilson

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

Eric Nicol

Just what is it that America stands for If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.

Woodrow Wilson

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

Edgar Watson Howe

An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon.

Gerald R. Ford

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

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

Gore Vidal