America Quotes

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - A sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John sloan dickey - the american male at the peak of his physical...
Ronald reagan, nov. 5, 1994 - i now begin the journey that will lead me into...
The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money - - Then make money with money - - Then make lots of money with lots of money.
Paul Erdman
I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.
Mohammed Daud Khan
Huey long - when fascism comes to america, it will come...
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
Michael Caine, www. aint - It - Cool - News. com
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.
William O. Douglas
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
A. E. Housman
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Proposal to reform welfare programs.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
George Bernard Shaw
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
George Bernard Shaw
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes".
It could probably be show by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain
Life is very important to Americans.
Bob Dole
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
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
Tonight - To you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. On his Vietnam War policy.
Richard Milhous Nixon
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
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - And that yardstick is Is it good for America.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Richard Milhous Nixon
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
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
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Walt Whitman
For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wants her to succeed as much as she does.
Cathleen Douglas
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2, 000 years from now when they study this civilization the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
Gerald Early
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
Marya Mannes
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
As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.
Lyndon B. Johnson
An American is a man with two arms and four wheels.
A Chinese Child
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
W. Somerset Maugham
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Sinclair Lewis
I greet you as the shapers of American society.
Lyndon B. Johnson
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
Margot Asquith
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
America - A great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far - Reaching in purpose.
Herbert Hoove
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.
George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty