America Quotes
The American sign of civic progress is to tear down the familiar and erect the monstrous.Shane Leslie
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.Theodore Roosevelt
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.Shirley Mount Hufstedle
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
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.Dan Quayle
Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.Rachel Blanchard
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.Bill Clinton
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.William Golding
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.Robert Francis Kennedy
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.Oscar Wilde
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.Gore Vidal
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.John Gunthe
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2, 000 years from now when they study this civilization the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.Gerald Early
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.H. L. Mencken
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.Mark Twain
The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.Jim Hightowe
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.J. Bartlett Brebne
It could probably be show by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress.Mark Twain
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.Dwight D Eisenhowe
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
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - - That we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.Thomas Wolfe
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
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.Joseph Conrad
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.Groucho Marx
I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.Lyndon B. Johnson
A world in which others controlled the course of their own development... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.Benjamin Cohen
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
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
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.
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.Walt Whitman
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first... Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.Richard Milhous Nixon
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear - Cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves, which leave us to wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them that we are missing.Gamel Abdel Nasse
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.Thomas Jefferson
In America, one gets as much justice as one can afford. 1966.Charles Stanton
