America Quotes

Henry james - it is, i think, an indisputable fact that...
I let the American people down.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Garry trudeau - america: the only country in the world where...
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
George Santayana
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - Ask what you can do for your country.
John F Kennedy
The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.
Tom Lehre
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
Herbert Clark Hoove
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
Benjamin Harrison
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Walt Whitman
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
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
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
Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
George Walker Bush
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 American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
Robert Francis Kennedy
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
Andy Rooney
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
George Will
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Sinclair Lewis
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
In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.
Geoffrey Cottrell
Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
George Will
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Gloria Steinem
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
We Americans live in a nation where the medical - Care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
Dave Barry
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
Margot Asquith
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
George Bernard Shaw
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
Harry S Truman
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
Clare Booth Luce
We can have no 50 - 50 allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
Teddy Roosevelt
I epitomize America.
John Denve
I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.
Ronald Reagan, Nov. 5, 1994
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
Mark Twain
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.
Gertrude Stein
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
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.
Woodrow Wilson
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882
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
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
Albert Einstein
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