America Quotes
There are three social classes in America upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.Judith Martin
All American cars are basically Chevrolets.Herb Caen
The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - The principle of civilian ascendency over the military.William Orville Douglas
We are capable of destroying America and breaking its nose.Muammar Qaddafi
One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.William Safire
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty
The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.Gunnar Myrdal
American can do better, and help is on the way.John Kerry, speech in 2004
America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.George W. Bush
When even one American - - who has done nothing wrong - - Is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - - Then all Americans are in peril.Harry S Truman
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.William John Bennett
I have one of those real old American built cars. The kind that just PUNCHES through accidents.Kevin Rooney
The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America.Ty - Grace Atkinson
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.Will Rogers
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.Bill Clinton
Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.Samuel Johnson
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.Arnold Toynbee
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.Joseph Conrad
We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.Waldo Frank
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. ... The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. Announcing blockade of Cuba.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.John Adams
If happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.William Lyon Phelps
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
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.John F. Kennedy
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.W. Somerset Maugham
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984
Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead.Sinclair Lewis
The political lesson of Watergate is this Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by - Pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.Gerald R. Ford
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.J. Bartlett Brebne
Tonight - To you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. On his Vietnam War policy.Richard Milhous Nixon
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.Lyndon B. Johnson
It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.Woody Allen
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.
Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.Rachel Blanchard
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
There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo - Americans... Each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world.Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America 1835
But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.Geoffrey F. Albert
