America Quotes
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.Margaret Thatche
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
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.H. L. Mencken
America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - From Democracy in America.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.John Gunthe
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
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.Mark Twain
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
An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon.Gerald R. Ford
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.George F. Will, Statecraft as Soulcraft
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.Charles De Gaulle
And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp - Looking report.Dave Barry
I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.George W. Bush, September 2, 2004, The Republican National Convention, N. Y.
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.George Bernard Shaw
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
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.Bob Dylan
The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.C. H. Cooley
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.King Edward VIII
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.Elizabeth II
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.Carl Sagan
I was born an American I will live an American I shall die an American.Daniel Webste
Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.Gore Vidal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
Indignation boils my blood at the thought of the heritage we are throwing away; at the thought that, with few exceptions, the fight for freedom is left to the poor, forlorn and defenseless, and to the few radicals and revolutionaries who would make use of liberty to destroy, rather than to maintain, American institutions.Arthur Garfield Hays
The chief business of the American people is business.Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925
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
An American will tinker with anything he can put his hands on. But how rarely can he be persuaded to tinker with an abstract idea.Leland Stowe
Life is very important to Americans.Bob Dole
Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.Roy Blount Jr.
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
On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - Halftime.Unknown
American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.Elinor Glyn
The American sign of civic progress is to tear down the familiar and erect the monstrous.Shane Leslie
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.Henry Louis Mencken
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
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
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.Gertrude Stein, The Geographical History of America (1936)
