Quotes on America
America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
Author, Unknown
The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America.
Author, Unknown
We cannot reform the world... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.
Kennedy, John F.
I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Bellamy, Francis
When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the American flag.
Author, Unknown
One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
Mead, Margaret
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.
Atkins, Janina
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.
Jackson, Jesse
America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming! The real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races.
Zangwill, Israel
On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime.
Author, Unknown
America's responsibility to history is to rid the world of evil.
Bush, George W.
Americans like fat books and thin women.
Baker, Russell
America is a tune. It must be sung together.
Lee, Gerald Stanley
America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.
McLuhan, Marshall
The U. S. has to make it clear to Iraq and U. S. allies that ... America will use force without negotiation, hesitation or U. N. approval. ... We have to be ready to live with our own contradictory policy. Sure, it doesn't make perfect sense.
Friedman, Thomas
If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from The Beverly Hillbillies.
Barry, Dave
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.
Farrell, James T.
Not merely a nation but a nation of nations.
Johnson, Lyndon B.
I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."
Rogers, Will
America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
Duckett, Hansell B.
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours."
Deloria, Vine
It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it... There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes.
Cooke, Alistair
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Coolidge, Calvin
Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.
Author, Unknown
The motivation for war is simple. The U. S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U. S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.
Moore, Michael
Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.
Bellow, Saul
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
Clinton, Bill
The U. S. has a new credibility. What we say goes.
Bush, George H.W.
Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
Bierce, Ambrose G.
We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.
McCracken, Robert J.
Only Americans can hurt America.
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith
Washington DC is the only place in America where people put bumper stickers on their cars the day AFTER the election.
Author, Unknown
It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.
Depew, Chauncey
I love my freedom. I love my America.
Adams, Jessi Lane
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
Wilson, Woodrow
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
Kennedy, John F.
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
Freud, Sigmund
The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind.
Adams, Charles Francis
Americans always try to do the right thing after they've tried everything else.
Churchill, Winston
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
Goldthwaite, Bobcat
There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappearance of the American dream which, in some ways, has turned to nightmare.
Greene, J.J.
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
Harrison, Benjamin
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Jefferson, Thomas
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, 'Ours'.
SDC, Father Andrew
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
Author, Unknown
By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.
Author, Unknown
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
Clinton, Bill
There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
Obama, Barack
As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.
Dodd, Christopher
America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.
Dodd, Christopher
By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation.
Dodd, Christopher
Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life.
Clinton, Bill