America Quotes

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

Gore Vidal

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

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

Tom Masson

Life is very important to Americans.

Bob Dole

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.

Van Wyck Brooks

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.

Gertrude Stein

I love America. You always hurt the one you love.

David Frye impersonating Nixon

I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

James Thurbe

Washington DC is the only place in America where people put bumper stickers on their cars the day *after* the election.

Cokie Roberts, TV interview in either 1992 or 1996

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

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

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

Eric Nicol

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un - American act that could most easily defeat us.

William Orville Douglas

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

The American ideal is youth - - Handsome, empty youth.

Henry Mille

Tonight - To you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. On his Vietnam War policy.

Richard Milhous Nixon

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

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

David Riesman

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.

Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876

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

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

Herbert Clark Hoove

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thompson

Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - A date which will live on in infamy - The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941

America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth.

David Frost

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

George Frost Kennan

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Ronald Reagan

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

Andy Rooney

Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.

Henry M. Wriston

American soldiers must be turned into lambs and eating them is tolerated.

Muammar Qaddafi