America Quotes
The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money - - Then make money with money - - Then make lots of money with lots of money.Paul Erdman
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
America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.George W. Bush
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
America, why are your libraries full of tears?Allen Ginsberg
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
The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide - Open spaces surrounded by teeth.Charles Luckman
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
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
Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly... to revere God and be God.Daniel J. Boorstin
This American system of ours... call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.Al Capone
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
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
Anglo - Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.William Jennings Bryan
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.Richard Milhous Nixon
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
We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940
Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.Henry M. Wriston
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 American ideal is youth - - Handsome, empty youth.Henry Mille
When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the American flag.Huey Long
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.George Herbert Walker Bush
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
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.Robert Francis Kennedy
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.Mark Twain
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - And that yardstick is Is it good for America.Dwight D Eisenhowe
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self - Conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under - Value them.Henry James
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.George Santayana
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.Bob Dylan
I was looking for an American symbol. A Coca - Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing anything with the American flag would have been insulting, and Cadillac hub caps were just too uncomfortable. speaking about the dress she wore made of American Express Cards.Lizzy Gardine
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.Gore Vidal
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.Carl Sagan
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome.Rush Limbaugh
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.Peter Kropotkin
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.Lyndon B. Johnson
