Americans - Quotes and Inspirational Thoughts



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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."

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Other quotes by Bruce B. Dan.
"We can now prove that large numbers of Americans are dying from sitting on their behinds."

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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."

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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)"

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Other quotes by Gerald R. Ford.
"My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. (On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president)"

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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."

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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."

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Other quotes by Benjamin Harrison.
"We Americans have no commission from God to police the world."

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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."

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Other quotes by Herbert Clark Hoover.
"There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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Other quotes by Alf Landon.
"Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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Other quotes by Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde.
"When good Americans die they go to Paris."

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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."

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Other quotes by Woodrow Wilson.
"Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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Other quotes by Sir William Preece.
"The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys."

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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."

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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)"

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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."

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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."

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Other quotes by Casey Stengel.
"Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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"

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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)"

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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."

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Other quotes by Theodore Roosevelt.
"I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics."

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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."

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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)"

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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."

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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)"

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Other quotes by Ronald Reagan.
"While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future."

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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."

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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)"

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Other quotes by John Dickinson.
"Then join hand in hand, brave Americans allBy uniting we stand, by dividing we fall."

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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."

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Other quotes by Irwin Edman.
"The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves."

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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."

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Other quotes by Reubin Askew.
"We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans."

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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."

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Other quotes by Robert Whitney Boynton.
"One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife...."

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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."

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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."

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