America Quotes

I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.

George W. Bush, September 2, 2004, The Republican National Convention, N. Y.

Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens.

Woodrow Wilson

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

Gore Vidal

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

Ernest Dimnet

There is a need for heroism in American life today.

Vicki Baum

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.

George Will

American soldiers must be turned into lambs and eating them is tolerated.

Muammar Qaddafi

America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.

George W. Bush

I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.

Charles Dickens

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

Edward Morgan Forste

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - From Democracy in America.

Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

Tom Masson

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

Daniel Webste

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - To surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Thomas Jefferson

The superiority of chocolate hot chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain...

Thomas Jefferson

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Edgar Watson Howe

The things that will destroy America are prosperity - At - Any - Price, safety - First instead of duty - First, the love of soft living, and the get - Rich - Quick theory of life.

Theodore Roosevelt

I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose... that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans.

William Jefferson Clinton

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

George Washington

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Gloria Steinem

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

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

Clare Booth Luce

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box their home, then travel the same road every day to another box their office.

Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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, Inaugural address, January 20, 1961

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 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

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

As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Gerald R. Ford

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - A sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing they were dead and in heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in hell.

H. L. Mencken

Tonight - To you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. On his Vietnam War policy.

Richard Milhous Nixon

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

George Bernard Shaw

The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

C. H. Cooley