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?
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Edith Wharton Quotes
America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.
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Unknown Author Quotes
We can now prove that large numbers of Americans are dying from sitting on their behinds.
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Bruce B. Dan Quotes
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.
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George W. Bush Quotes
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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Unknown Author Quotes
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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P.J. O'Rourke Quotes
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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Harry S. Truman Quotes
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
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Unknown Author Quotes
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
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Herbert Clark Hoover Quotes
People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
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Ralph Nader Quotes
At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
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Casey Stengel Quotes
Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power.
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Yoshimi Ishikawa Quotes
Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing they were dead and in heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in hell.
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Unknown Author Quotes
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.
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D. W. Brogan Quotes
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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Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
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Reubin Askew Quotes
3 out of 4 Americans make up 75% of the population.
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Unknown Author Quotes
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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Ben Bova Quotes
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
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John F. Kennedy Quotes
If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics.
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Luther H. Hodges Quotes
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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Ronald Reagan Quotes
I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.
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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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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Albert Einstein Quotes
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
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Unknown Author Quotes
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
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Robert Whitney Boynton Quotes
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.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
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George S. Patton Quotes
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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Unknown Author Quotes
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.
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Unknown Author Quotes
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.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly... to revere God and be God.
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Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
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Unknown Author Quotes
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Americans never quit.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.
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Unknown Author Quotes
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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Lily Tomlin Quotes
We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.
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Unknown Author Quotes
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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Ronald Reagan Quotes
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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Unknown Author Quotes
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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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Quotes
There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."
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Gordon Allport Quotes
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
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Unknown Author Quotes
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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Bill Clinton Quotes
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.
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Christopher Dodd Quotes
It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.
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Christopher Dodd Quotes
All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.
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Christopher Dodd Quotes