America Quotes
As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.Franklin D. Roosevelt
I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly There is a tendency for the world to say to America, the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out, and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.Tony Blai
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
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
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
Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.Luigi Barzini
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
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.Theodore Roosevelt
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
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
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.Peter Ustinov
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.Sinclair Lewis
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
I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.Mohammed Daud Khan
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.Herbert Clark Hoove
America, why are your libraries full of tears?Allen Ginsberg
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.Gore Vidal
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
We can now prove that large numbers of Americans are dying from sitting on their behinds.Bruce B. Dan
For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wants her to succeed as much as she does.Cathleen Douglas
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 was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.Harry S Truman
What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.Barbara Charline Jordan
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.John Ciardi
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.Dwight David Eisenhowe
When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the American flag.Huey Long
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
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Proposal to reform welfare programs.Richard Milhous Nixon
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
As an anti - American, I thank you for your rotten article devoted to my person.Prince Sihanouk in a letter to Time magazine
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.Oscar Wilde
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first... Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.Richard Milhous Nixon
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
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans allBy uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.John Dickinson
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
The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.John F. Kennedy
