Quotes on Americans
How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be 'American' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?
Wharton, Edith
We can now prove that large numbers of Americans are dying from sitting on their behinds.
Dan, Bruce B.
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.
Truman, Harry S.
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
Hoover, Herbert Clark
People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
Nader, Ralph
At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.
Author, Unknown
Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power.
Ishikawa, Yoshimi
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.
Brogan, D. W.
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)
Johnson, Lyndon B.
If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics.
Hodges, Luther H.
I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.
Roosevelt, Theodore
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
Boynton, Robert Whitney
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.
Author, Unknown
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
Patton, George S.
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.
Author, Unknown
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves, which leave us to wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them that we are missing.
Author, Unknown
We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
Author, Unknown
Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly... to revere God and be God.
Boorstin, Daniel J.
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
Author, Unknown
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.
Tomlin, Lily
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)
Reagan, Ronald
There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."
Allport, Gordon
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Author, Unknown
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.
Clinton, Bill
Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.
Dodd, Christopher
It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.
Dodd, Christopher
All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.
Dodd, Christopher