America Quotes

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

Woody Allen

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

Edmund White

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - Men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

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.

Jesse Louis Jackson

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

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

Richard Milhous Nixon

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well - wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.

John Quincy Adams

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.

Henry G. Strauss

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.

George Will

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

James Baldwin

A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - Indeed, inevitable - The United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.

Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

Americans become unhappy and vicious because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.

Philip Saltie

The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell upon their knees. Then they fell upon the aborigines.

(Anon.)

Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.

Alf Landon, during his speech in his presidential campaign against FDR

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

Hunter S. Thompson

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

James T. Farrell

I think on - Stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

Shelley Winters

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

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

William Golding

I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose... that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans.

William Jefferson Clinton

I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.

Charles Dickens

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

Eric Nicol

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

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

Carl Sandburg

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

Marya Mannes

There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Mark Twain