America Quotes
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 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
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
When Fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag.Huey Long
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.George Bernard Shaw
What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.Barbara Charline Jordan
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.Peter Ustinov
The deepest American dream is not the hunger for money or fame it is the dream of settling down, in peace and freedom and cooperation, in the promised land.Scott Russell Sanders
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
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".
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
No man has a right in America to treat any other man tolerantly, for tolerance is the assumption of superiority.Wendell Willkie
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused? preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.George Walker Bush
There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.Mark Twain
America, why are your libraries full of tears?Allen Ginsberg
The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration, from the cautious quest for what they knew or what they thought they knew was out there, to an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown.Daniel J. Boorstin
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
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July I answer A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.Frederick Douglas
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.George Will
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.George Santayana
America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome.Rush Limbaugh
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
My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.Ronald Reagan
America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.Ernest Hemingway
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
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.Sinclair Lewis
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, Ours.Father Andrew SDC
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
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
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.Carl Sandburg
I epitomize America.John Denve
They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight.Roger Rosenblatt
