America Quotes
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
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
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.Gloria Steinem
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.Bill Clinton
The chief business of the American people is business.Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.Sigmund Freud
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport.Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
There is a homely old adage which runs: Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.Theodore Roosevelt, Speech in Chicago, 3 Apr. 1903
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.Mary Ellen Kelly
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.Lyndon B. Johnson
When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the American flag.Huey Long
The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.Jim Hightowe
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 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
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.Carl Sandburg
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.Jim Fiebig
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. ... The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. Announcing blockade of Cuba.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.Lyndon B. Johnson
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well - wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.John Quincy Adams
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need.John Dewey
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
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.Arnold Toynbee
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.Edward Morgan Forste
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
On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - Halftime.Unknown
If happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.William Lyon Phelps
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal".
Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.John Ashcroft
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.Sinclair Lewis
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.Gore Vidal
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.Benjamin Harrison
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
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
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
America, why are your libraries full of tears?Allen Ginsberg
