America Quotes

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

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Henry David Thoreau

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

Arnold Toynbee

The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

William Gladstone

It could probably be show by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress.

Mark Twain

I greet you as the shapers of American society.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live 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

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Oscar Wilde

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes".

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 we are missing.

Gamel Abdel Nasse

America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

I let the American people down.

Richard Milhous Nixon

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

John Ciardi

Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Sinclair Lewis

I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.

Janina Atkins

Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead.

Sinclair Lewis

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

The story of my boyhood and that of my brothers is important only because it could happen in any American family. It did, and will again.

Earl Eisenhowe

Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.

George F. Will, Statecraft as Soulcraft

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

William J. Clinton

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 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

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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.

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

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

John Gunthe

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

Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

Rachel Blanchard

A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America.

Otto von Bismarck

The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.

Jesse Louis Jackson

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

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

Paul Fussell

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

Gore Vidal

I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American.

A. F. Shaw

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.