America Quotes


America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within. Josef Stalin America 610
The propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregard the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained. Inaugural address 1789 George Washington America 333
What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise. Barbara Jordan America 307
Every child in America deserves high-quality health care. Nancy L. Johnson America 299
Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World. Mary Chapin Carpenter America 257
Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president. Linda Tripp America 254
Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars. Hunter S. Thompson America 223
Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America. John L. Lewis America 191
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam. Marshall McLuhan America 184
America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description. Ralph Ellison America 170
It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe. Albert J. Beveridge America 153
America is another name for opportunity. Ralph Waldo Emerson America 151
America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good America will cease to be great. Alexis de Tocqueville America 148
We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are whores for power and oil with hate and fear in our hearts Hunter S. Thompson America 142
There are no second acts in American lives. F. Scott Fitzgerald America 140
We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives. Charles Hamilton Houston America 134
Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong. Ronald Reagan America 134
Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom. King George III America 124
The making of an American begins at that point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land. James Baldwin America 124
If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future. Madeleine Albright America 122
America is just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. Hunter S. Thompson America 115
The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American Theodore Roosevelt America 114
In America, music is more tightly categorized. Ednita Nazario America 110
The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails. Federico Garcia Lorca America 110
Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live. General Douglas MacArthur America 108
Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect. Carl Sandburg America 108
There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. Otto von Bismarck America 107
The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous. Lin Yutang America 107
For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America. George W. Bush America 105
America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got. Charlotte Bunch America 105
Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism. John Kerry America 102
What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others. Carlos Fuentes America 102
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. Henry Kissinger America 102
What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from." Marilyn vos Savant America 101
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions. George Carlin America 100
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. Franklin D. Roosevelt America 100
I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy. Charles Olson America 100
The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts. America Ferrera America 99
I want to gather up all the ink cartridges in the universe because somewhere mixed in with all that ink is the next great American novel. And Id love nothing more than to drink it. Jarod Kintz America 99
Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race. Hunter S. Thompson America 98
But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America. Gerrit Smith America 97
You get confused by crying women I get confused by walks with princes Kiera Cass America 97
America is a willingness of the heart. Source Unknown America 97
America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks. John Barrymore America 97
Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World. Ambrose Bierce America 97
I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today. Tom Coburn America 97
America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning. Nelson Rockefeller America 96
If we mean to support the liberty and independence which have cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach. George Washington America 96
The fact is that America relies on Amtrak to move people. Tim Bishop America 95
There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America. William Graham Sumner America 95

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