America Quotes
The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises - It is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook - It holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.Margot Asquith
America - A great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far - Reaching in purpose.Herbert Hoove
Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.John Corry
One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.Elmer Davis
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
Qaddafi counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong.Ronald Reagan
Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead.Sinclair Lewis
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.E. B. White
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.Will Rogers
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
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.Sinclair Lewis
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
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.John Barrymore
All American cars are basically Chevrolets.Herb Caen
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.George Frost Kennan
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.Woodrow Wilson
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.Gore Vidal
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 are capable of destroying America and breaking its nose.Muammar Qaddafi
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.Woody Allen
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
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.Peter Ustinov
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un - American act that could most easily defeat us.William Orville Douglas
The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.William Gladstone
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.Arnold Toynbee
America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need.John Dewey
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 like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.Bob Dylan
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.Sigmund Freud
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.Margot Asquith
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
America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.Lyndon B. Johnson
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.Oscar Wilde
