America Quotes
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
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.Mary Ellen Kelly
The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.William Fullbright
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.George Santayana
There is a homely old adage which runs: Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.Theodore Roosevelt, Speech in Chicago, 3 Apr. 1903
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.Louis D. Brandeis
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.Jimmy Carte
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
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.Robert Francis Kennedy
If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.George W. Bush
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
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
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
At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.John Kerry, speech in New York, August 24, 2004
Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.Margaret Thatche
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, Ours.Father Andrew SDC
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.Michael Caine, www. aint - It - Cool - News. com
And so, my fellow americans ask not what your country can do for you - Ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.John F. Kennedy
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
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
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.Emma Albani
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. On the Vietnam Wa.Richard Milhous Nixon
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
The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.Irwin Edman
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.Ronald Reagan
No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet.William Safire
The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self - Reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.Henry Louis Mencken
The American ideal is youth - - Handsome, empty youth.Henry Mille
America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.George W. Bush
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - A date which will live on 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, Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941
The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominate political mythology.Michael Parenti
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - And that yardstick is Is it good for America.Dwight D Eisenhowe
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
If I were to select a jack - Booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF.John Dingell
The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville
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
I think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States. It has no following and has been disregarded by the American people for many, many years.Robert F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
