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
Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.Margaret Thatche
We can have no 50 - 50 allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.Teddy Roosevelt
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.H. L. Mencken
The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises - It is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook - It holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.Reubin Askew
There are three social classes in America upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.Judith Martin
America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth.David Frost
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - Men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.Dwight D Eisenhowe
Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.John Corry
The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen.John Sloan Dickey
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.Sigmund Freud
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.Ronald Reagan
I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American.A. F. Shaw
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
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.Richard Milhous Nixon
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.John Gunthe
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
When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the American flag.Huey Long
The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.John F. Kennedy
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
America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
The superiority of chocolate hot chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain...Thomas Jefferson
What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.Barbara Charline Jordan
Well, it looks like the all - Star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.Jerry Coleman
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
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
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.John Barrymore
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
