America Quotes
We Americans know - Although others appear to forget - The risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam.Lyndon B. Johnson
The 100% American is 99% an idiot.George Bernard Shaw
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered, The one I feed.Anonymous, As told in Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.A. E. Housman
They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.Lyndon B. Johnson
As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.Elija Lovejoy
American soldiers must be turned into lambs and eating them is tolerated.Muammar Qaddafi
I hope that no American... will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.Georges Clemenceau
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.Arnold Toynbee
If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot.John A. Dix
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars.Gerald R. Ford
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.H. L. Mencken
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
America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
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.
America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.Oscar Wilde
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.Edward Morgan Forste
I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.James Thurbe
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
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.Groucho Marx
Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing they were dead and in heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in hell.H. L. Mencken
Americans never quit.General Douglas Macarthu
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.E. B. White
America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.Ernest Hemingway
The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration, from the cautious quest for what they knew or what they thought they knew was out there, to an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown.Daniel J. Boorstin
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.William J. Clinton
America is not like a blanket - - One piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt - - Many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.Henry M. Jackson
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.Margot Asquith
England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.George Bernard Shaw
Washington DC is the only place in America where people put bumper stickers on their cars the day *after* the election.Cokie Roberts, TV interview in either 1992 or 1996
America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.Lyndon B. Johnson
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.Edgar Watson Howe
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.H. L. Mencken
