America

Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by Dan Quayle.: "The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world people Other quotes by Dan Quayle.: "We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans need Other quotes by Sir William Preece.: "The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first purpose Other quotes by Andy Rooney.: "Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose."
Quote link. Other quotes by Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson.: "There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not."
Quote link. Other quotes by Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson.: "In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes."
Quote link. Other quotes about: philosophy history Other quotes by Margaret Thatcher.: "Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: philosophy history never Other quotes by Margaret Thatcher.: "Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: music wish Other quotes by Virgil Thompson.: "The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish."
Quote link. Other quotes about: person sin mind look Other quotes by James Thurber.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes by H.L. Mencken.: "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
Quote link. Other quotes by H.L. Mencken.: "Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right freedom respect government rule Other quotes by Hubert Humphrey.: "Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson.: "The Negro says, 'Now.' Others say, 'Never.' The voice of responsible Americans ... says, 'Together.' There is no other way."
Quote link. Other quotes about: society Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson.: "I greet you as the shapers of American society."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people war Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson.: "I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength find right friend man respect house today war friends Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson.: "The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaciton and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilzation. It is what we seek today."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans war forget Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson.: "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)"
Quote link. Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson.: "They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right law Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson.: "A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength purpose country Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson.: "I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America."
Quote link. Other quotes about: glory Other quotes by Dwight D Eisenhower.: "I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong nothing freedom love Other quotes by Dwight D Eisenhower.: "There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never men women honest Other quotes by Dwight D Eisenhower.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope first world Other quotes by Dwight D Eisenhower.: "Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good Other quotes by Dwight D Eisenhower.: "I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is Is it good for America"
Quote link. Other quotes about: think nothing people living look Other quotes by Dwight D Eisenhower.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "England and America are two countries separated by the same language."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man father Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "In England every man you meet is some man's son in America, he may be some man's father."
Quote link. Other quotes about: past words Other quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin.: "Our American past always speaks to us with two voices the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him Citizens ask, What do they mean to us Historians are trained to seek the original meaning all of us want to know the present meaning."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience man mankind discover Other quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: class Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."
Quote link. Other quotes about: person Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before."
Quote link. Other quotes about: class fact Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it."
Quote link. Other quotes by Henry G. Strauss.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Father Andrew SDC.: "When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, Ours."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend love friends Other quotes by Janina Atkins.: "I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police."
Quote link. Other quotes about: christ men discover Other quotes by Margot Asquith.: "What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans talk dreams Other quotes by Reubin Askew.: "We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people country Other quotes by Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe.: "Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life today need Other quotes by Vicki Baum.: "There is a need for heroism in American life today."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind Other quotes by Jacques Martin Barzun.: "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk believe world man dreams mankind discover woman child Other quotes by L. Frank Baum.: "Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams--daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing--are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work people education Other quotes by William John Bennett.: "The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people."
Quote link. Other quotes by Sir Walter Besant.: "England and America are two countries separated by the same language."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mother making Other quotes by Rachel Blanchard.: "Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans world rest Other quotes by Ben Bova.: "The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans wife Other quotes by Robert Whitney Boynton.: "One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife...."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books book mind Other quotes by Van Wyck Brooks.: "The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans man life Other quotes by Kurt Vonnegut.: "Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mental americans friend think men friends Other quotes by Rita Mae Brown.: "The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world Other quotes by George Walker Bush.: "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"
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech small men man today religion Other quotes by Colin Campbell.: "Indeed, the Founders mentioned the pagan authors in so many heartfelt speeches, pamphlets and letters that today's sweeping references to America's 'Christian' roots and 'Judeo-Christian heritage' ought to be amended. Maybe these terms should be reserved to explain the traditional religions and morality of individuals, families, congregations, small communitities. Politically, our notions of virtue and vice have had another genesis."
Quote link. Other quotes by Al Capone.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: run Other quotes by Al Capone.: "My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right human Other quotes by James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr..: "America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by A Chinese Child.: "An American is a man with two arms and four wheels."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans purpose good forget hard Other quotes by William Jefferson Clinton.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: greed time change Other quotes by William Jefferson Clinton.: "I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo your time has come -- and gone. It's time for change in America."
Quote link. Other quotes about: look Other quotes by Jerry Coleman.: "Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world Other quotes by Benjamin Cohen.: "A world in which others controlled the course of their own development ... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered."
Quote link. Other quotes by John Corry.: "Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease."
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech people past hard look Other quotes by Mario M Cuomo.: "We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it ... not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans Other quotes by Bruce B. Dan.: "We can now prove that large numbers of Americans are dying from sitting on their behinds."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong sun Other quotes by Elmer Davis.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans think Other quotes by Charles De Gaulle.: "You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination."
Quote link. Other quotes about: physical money power little person society male Other quotes by John Sloan Dickey.: "The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world fact Other quotes by Marlene Dietrich.: "In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact."
Quote link. Other quotes about: today society Other quotes by John Dingell.: "If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF."
Quote link. Other quotes by John A. Dix.: "If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something wife Other quotes by Robert Joseph Bob Dole.: "At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say. (on his wife Elizabeth, president of the American Red Cross)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: first man life success woman Other quotes by Cathleen Douglas.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: government Other quotes by William Orville Douglas.: "The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love Other quotes by Bob Dylan.: "I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged."
Quote link. Other quotes about: children child Other quotes by King Edward VIII.: "The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children."
Quote link. Other quotes about: brother important family Other quotes by Earl Eisenhower.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost right time man Other quotes by Elizabeth II.: "We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right house grow Other quotes by Sam James Ervin, Jr..: "Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great"
Quote link. Other quotes about: never Other quotes by Gerald R. Ford.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: rich Other quotes by Gerald R. Ford.: "An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. (On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans live good war past forgiveness Other quotes by Gerald R. Ford.: "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)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans rich Other quotes by Gerald R. Ford.: "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. (On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: anger people life person important Other quotes by Edward Morgan Forster.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nature Other quotes by Waldo Frank.: "We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created."
Quote link. Other quotes about: prejudices people fear Other quotes by William Fullbright.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: look Other quotes by Lizzy Gardiner.: "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)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: life Other quotes by Allen Ginsberg.: "Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans people beauty Other quotes by William Golding.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old people Other quotes by Phil Gramm.: "The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people."
Quote link. Other quotes about: dead Other quotes by Alexander Meigs Haig.: "I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope americans people war future Other quotes by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts.: "I hope in the future Americans are thought of as a warlike, vicious people, because I bet a lot of high schools would pick 'Americans' as their mascot."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans god world Other quotes by Benjamin Harrison.: "We Americans have no commission from God to police the world."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think life Other quotes by William Torrey Harris.: "Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. ... The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think people past Other quotes by Lillian Hellman.: "We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans ignorance Other quotes by Luther H. Hodges.: "If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work understand run Other quotes by Robert Hewison.: "Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works."
Quote link. Other quotes about: today Other quotes by Jim Hightower.: "The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere."
Quote link. Other quotes by Herbert Clark Hoover.: "No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans respect Other quotes by Herbert Clark Hoover.: "There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk first man freedom Other quotes by Edgar Watson Howe.: "I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people children society child teach Other quotes by Shirley Mount Hufstedler.: "The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society."
Quote link. Other quotes by Robert Hutchins.: "It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Jesse Louis Jackson.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Henry M. Jackson.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: small old peace woman young Other quotes by Jesse Louis Jackson.: "The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans think world people belief fact Other quotes by Henry James.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: technology right Other quotes by Clive James.: "Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people good Other quotes by Barbara Charline Jordan.: "What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans evil Other quotes by Mary Ellen Kelly.: "Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe look Other quotes by George Frost Kennan.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans Other quotes by George Frost Kennan.: "The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian."
Quote link. Other quotes about: light Other quotes by Mohammed Daud Khan.: "I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience art think Other quotes by Shelley Winters.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans country Other quotes by Alf Landon.: "Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans."
Quote link. Other quotes about: country Other quotes by Sinclair Lewis.: "Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country."
Quote link. Other quotes by Shane Leslie.: "The American sign of civic progress is to tear down the familiar and erect the monstrous."
Quote link. Other quotes about: christ world people life living Other quotes by Clare Booth Luce.: "You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth think Other quotes by Shannon Lucid.: "You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. The view from Mir put everything in perspective."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans men Other quotes by Frank Luntz.: "Quite frankly Ted, the very mention of the word 'Republican' seems to have negative connotations for the Americans in our studio."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right men man silence Other quotes by Archibald MacLeish.: "Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness."
Quote link. Other quotes about: child Other quotes by Charles Mathias, Jr..: "I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition the brown bag. ... Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home."
Quote link. Other quotes about: class Other quotes by Judith Martin.: "There are three social classes in America upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience work freedom light person Other quotes by Forest McDonald.: "Americans who had traveled in Europe knew the 'free' European peasants suffered considerably greater oppression and misery than did American bondsman. Modern scholarship has shown that the exploitation rate -- the percentage of the worker's production that was taken from him by his owners -- was lower among the slaves than among European peasants, that work loads were light, and that slaves actually experienced a considerable measure of personal freedom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life Other quotes by Tom Masson.: "Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost today love Other quotes by Henry Louis Mencken.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day change mind Other quotes by Henry Louis Mencken.: "A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic."
Quote link. Other quotes by Henry Louis Mencken.: "Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."
Quote link. Other quotes by Lance Morrow.: "The real 196s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963....It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans people living Other quotes by Gunnar Myrdal.: "The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans something never Other quotes by Gamal Abdel Nasser.: "The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think person Other quotes by Oliver L. North.: "I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do. (Invoking Fifth Amendment)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: service Other quotes by Oliver L. North.: "I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America ever violated an order-not one."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old live world Other quotes by Peggy Noonan.: "You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in, 'That world is gone.'"
Quote link. Other quotes about: human little life media Other quotes by Camille Paglia.: "A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans think world Other quotes by Michael Parenti.: "The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominate political mythology."
Quote link. Other quotes about: answer Other quotes by Lester Bowles Pearson.: "I accept now with equanimity the question so constantly addressed to me, 'Are you an American' and merely return the accurate answer, 'Yes, I am a Canadian.'"
Quote link. Other quotes about: world people Other quotes by J Danforth Quayle.: "We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."
Quote link. Other quotes by Muammar Qaddafi.: "We are capable of destroying America and breaking its nose."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people hard Other quotes by J Danforth Quayle.: "I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money power people men society Other quotes by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.: "Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first purpose Other quotes by Andrew A. Rooney.: "Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right Other quotes by David Dean Rusk.: "Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen."
Quote link. Other quotes by William Safire.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes by William Safire.: "No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money freedom peace deep Other quotes by Scott Russell Sanders.: "The deepest American dream is not the hunger for money or fame it is the dream of settling down, in peace and freedom and cooperation, in the promised land."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life wisdom Other quotes by Benno C. Schmidt, Jr..: "Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity."
Quote link. Other quotes by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes by Charles Stanton.: "In America, one gets as much justice as one can afford. (1966)"
Quote link. Other quotes by Gertrude Stein.: "In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live man freedom light love country Other quotes by Adlai Ewing Stevenson.: "When an American says that he loves his country, he ... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk truth people pain Other quotes by Adlai Ewing Stevenson.: "Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains."
Quote link. Other quotes by Adlai Ewing Stevenson.: "In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience talk right believe man life religion belief words Other quotes by Adlai Ewing Stevenson.: "What do I believe As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand."
Quote link. Other quotes by Leland Stowe.: "An American will tinker with anything he can put his hands on. But how rarely can he be persuaded to tinker with an abstract idea."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hours history truth live world never men honest rich country look Other quotes by John Swinton.: "There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
Quote link. Other quotes about: philosophy history Other quotes by Margaret Hilda Thatcher.: "Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: philosophy right believe Other quotes by Clarence Thomas.: "I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good Other quotes by Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville.: "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man democracy change Other quotes by Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville.: "America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - from Democracy in America"
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing freedom Other quotes by Peter Ustinov.: "In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason Other quotes by Peter Ustinov.: "The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill."
Quote link. Other quotes about: democracy Other quotes by Bill Vaughan.: "A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience think Other quotes by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr..: "High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die live born Other quotes by Daniel Webster.: "I was born an American I will live an American I shall die an American."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money power death life hate war love sin Other quotes by Edmund White.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find old men ideas Other quotes by Theodore Harold White.: "Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never discover Other quotes by Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde.: "Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans die good Other quotes by Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde.: "When good Americans die they go to Paris."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans work man mind family Other quotes by Walter Williams.: "History is not going to be kind to liberals. With their mindless programs, they've managed to do to Black Americans what slavery, Reconstruction, and rank racism found impossible destroy their family and work ethic."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right man Other quotes by Wendell Willkie.: "No man has a right in America to treat any other man tolerantly, for tolerance is the assumption of superiority."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans need Other quotes by Woodrow Wilson.: "Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by Woodrow Wilson.: "Just what is it that America stands for If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans history little Other quotes by Louis Booker Wright.: "We're trying to show that we're not a little bit of England in America, but a place for Americans to gain a better perspective on their own history."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience life Other quotes by Henry M. Wriston.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god Other quotes by John Ashcroft.: "Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right human god world people freedom person future Other quotes by George W. Bush.: "Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world Other quotes by Tony Blair.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength value society Other quotes by Jimmy Carter.: "Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live time never value past rest Other quotes by Jimmy Carter.: "We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong right nothing Other quotes by Bill Clinton.: "There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right Other quotes by John Ciardi.: "The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think people life influence Other quotes by William O. Douglas.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right Other quotes by Henry II Ford.: "What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans something think time never past Other quotes by Robin Green.: "Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time."
Quote link. Other quotes about: belief fact Other quotes by John Gunther.: "Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts."
Quote link. Other quotes by A. E. Housman.: "In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nature Other quotes by John F. Kennedy.: "The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans world man freedom country Other quotes by John F. Kennedy.: "And so, my fellow americans ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
Quote link. Other quotes by Tom Lehrer.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes by Trey and Matt Stone Parker.: "A Haiku is just like a normal American poem except that it doesn't rhyme and it's totally stupid."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power day live people man Other quotes by Faith Popcorn.: "The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office)."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time life Other quotes by Marya Mannes.: "The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk money men women Other quotes by Marya Mannes.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: creative discover Other quotes by Carl Sandburg.: "One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god day men sun light women creative Other quotes by Carl Sandburg.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little dollars Other quotes by Woody Allen.: "Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little dollars Other quotes by Woody Allen.: "It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work people rich look Other quotes by Robert Orben.: "Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man woman rest society Other quotes by Charles Caleb Colton.: "In America every woman has her set of girl-friends some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who 'come out' together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend day truth live men today friends deep Other quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr..: "Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'"
Quote link. Other quotes about: success important Other quotes by Geoffrey Cottrell.: "In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is."
Quote link. Other quotes about: law Other quotes by Harry S Truman.: "It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans wrong nothing fear mind Other quotes by Harry S Truman.: "When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth -- then all Americans are in peril."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men belief Other quotes by Harry S Truman.: "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break."
Quote link. Other quotes about: courage fear Other quotes by Harry S Truman.: "America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by Will Rogers.: "The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans government Other quotes by P. J. O'Rourke.: "Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work time man purpose Other quotes by William Gladstone.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money Other quotes by Gore Vidal.: "The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope never people Other quotes by Gore Vidal.: "Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."
Quote link. Other quotes by Gore Vidal.: "Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink."
Quote link. Other quotes about: run Other quotes by Gore Vidal.: "Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day answer Other quotes by Frederick Douglas.: "What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July I answer A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong right nothing Other quotes by William J. Clinton.: "There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans good Other quotes by Casey Stengel.: "Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people government Other quotes by Henry David Thoreau.: "The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe Other quotes by Robert Francis Kennedy.: "The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason man today person courage future fear society ideas Other quotes by Robert Francis Kennedy.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans time important war hard Other quotes by D. W. Brogan.: "For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never discover Other quotes by Oscar Wilde.: "Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
Quote link. Other quotes by Oscar Wilde.: "We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language."
Quote link. Other quotes by Thomas Wolfe.: "Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope Other quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans world man freedom country Other quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy.: "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth people value ideas fact Other quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans friend time peace war hard born Other quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: christ father house discover Other quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy.: "To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America."
Quote link. Other quotes about: beauty look Other quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy.: "I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans right human friend world time today peace war hard born Other quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy.: "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, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world"
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans never freedom Other quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy.: "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)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans die war hard young Other quotes by George McGovern.: "It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god think understand good Other quotes by Israel Zangwill.: "You, the Spirit of the Settlement ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries..."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think music Other quotes by Gerald Early.: "I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball."
Quote link. Other quotes by Henry Miller.: "The American ideal is youth -- handsome, empty youth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: fact Other quotes by Ayn Rand.: "Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production."
Quote link. Other quotes about: duty life living love Other quotes by Theodore Roosevelt.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old run Other quotes by Theodore Roosevelt.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: society Other quotes by George Will.: "Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life Other quotes by George Will.: "Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by George Will.: "Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans world wish Other quotes by Theodore Roosevelt.: "I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man look Other quotes by Old School.: "Beanie Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right respect teach Other quotes by William Jennings Bryan.: "Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans honest hard country Other quotes by Lily Tomlin.: "Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think Other quotes by Calvin Coolidge.: "I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President, and I think I'll go along with them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power peace past future making Other quotes by Richard Milhous Nixon.: "My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future. (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by Richard Milhous Nixon.: "I let the American people down."
Quote link. Other quotes about: history war Other quotes by Richard Milhous Nixon.: "No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by Calvin Coolidge.: "The chief business of the American people is business."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first never Other quotes by Richard Milhous Nixon.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans war Other quotes by Richard Milhous Nixon.: "Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask for your support. (On his Vietnam War policy)"
Quote link. Other quotes by Richard Milhous Nixon.: "If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. (Proposal to reform welfare programs)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: freedom children wish child Other quotes by Roger Rosenblatt.: "They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people peace war words Other quotes by Richard Milhous Nixon.: "As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to ... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. (On the Vietnam War)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Charles Luckman.: "The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope money first Other quotes by Paul Erdman.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power god people man respect government religion law lies Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson.: "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson.: "It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance."
Quote link. Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson.: "The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain. . ."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong Other quotes by Ronald Reagan.: "Qaddafi counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans worse grow Other quotes by Ronald Reagan.: "My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good dead food Other quotes by Luigi Barzini.: "Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans run young Other quotes by Ronald Reagan.: "These young Americans sent a message to terrorists everywhere ... You can run but you can't hide. (On US pilots who captured four terrorists)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: god class first never Other quotes by Ronald Reagan.: "We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans live past future Other quotes by Ronald Reagan.: "While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans Other quotes by Ronald Reagan.: "My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason right world love country Other quotes by James Baldwin.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes by Ronald Reagan.: "If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old young Other quotes by Walt Whitman.: "In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans today Other quotes by Ronald Reagan.: "My fellow Americans I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes. (Comment while testing a microphone before a broadcast 11 Aug 84)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: physical people game Other quotes by Walt Whitman.: "I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans Other quotes by John Dickinson.: "Then join hand in hand, brave Americans allBy uniting we stand, by dividing we fall."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people government deep Other quotes by George Washington.: "The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered ... deeply ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope man government mankind Other quotes by George Washington.: "As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books world book value sin single Other quotes by Carl Sagan.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think Other quotes by Maya Angelou.: "We really are 15 countries, and it's really remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham -- both are certain they are the real American."
Quote link. Other quotes by Shirley Chisholm.: "I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans man look Other quotes by Albert Einstein.: "Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find work happy day life living future child look Other quotes by Albert Einstein.: "I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play. (referring to America)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: live never life future Other quotes by Albert Einstein.: "The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans Other quotes by Irwin Edman.: "The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live Other quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt.: "Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans think fact lies Other quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by Spiro T. Agnew.: "Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live Other quotes by Alice Walker.: "In order to be able to live in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose."
Quote link. Other quotes about: education Other quotes by George Santayana.: "To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people war mind Other quotes by Geoffrey F. Albert.: "But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people."
Quote link. Other quotes about: born Other quotes by Malcolm X.: "Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth man mankind Other quotes by John Adams.: "I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."
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