America Quotes
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.Gertrude Stein
The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen.John Sloan Dickey
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.Albert Einstein, 1929
There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.Adlai Ewing Stevenson
The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide - Open spaces surrounded by teeth.Charles Luckman
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.Gore Vidal
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.Paul Fussell
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.John F. Kennedy
Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.Gore Vidal
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.Sigmund Freud
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
The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.Phil Gramm
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal".
American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good - will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.James Harvey Robinson
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Benjamin Franklin
Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.Mike Royko, columnist
I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.Theodore Roosevelt
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.John Updike, Problems and Other Stories
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.Carl Sandburg
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.Camille Paglia
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.John Barrymore
America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth.David Frost
When Fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag.Huey Long
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.Peter Ustinov
The story of my boyhood and that of my brothers is important only because it could happen in any American family. It did, and will again.Earl Eisenhowe
In America, one gets as much justice as one can afford. 1966.Charles Stanton
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.Ayn Rand
Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.Allen Ginsberg
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.William O. Douglas
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness.Archibald MacLeish
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, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.Edgar Watson Howe
I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American.A. F. Shaw
Qaddafi counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong.Ronald Reagan
America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome.Rush Limbaugh
