America Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Will Rogers,
Adlai E. Stevenson,
Woodrow Wilson
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| The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind. |
| - Charles Francis Adams |
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| What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. |
| - Margot Asquith |
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| I pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora, fauna and human life that it supports, one planet indivisible, with safe air, water & soil, economic justice, equal rights and peace for all. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| If you can speak three languages you're trilingual. If you can speak two languages you're bilingual. If you can speak only one language you're an American. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Americans like fat books and thin women. |
| - Russell Baker |
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| I love America more than any other country in this world; and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. |
| - James Baldwin |
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| 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. |
| - Dave Barry |
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| 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. |
| - Saul Bellow |
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| Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize. |
| - Ambrose Bierce |
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| America is the best half-educated country in the world. |
| - Nicholas Murray Butler |
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| America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America. |
| - Jimmy Carter |
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| 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. |
| - Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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| Americans always try to do the right thing after they've tried everything else. |
| - Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt. |
| - Eldridge Cleaver |
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| I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare. |
| - Eldridge Cleaver |
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| America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. |
| - Georges Clemenceau |
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| There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. |
| - William J. Clinton |
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| 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. |
| - Alistair Cooke |
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| America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still. |
| - E.E. Cummings |
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| This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. |
| - Elmer Davis |
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| It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers. |
| - Chauncey M. Depew |
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| Only Americans can hurt America. |
| - Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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| United States!... Go put your creed into your deed. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Of all the supervised conditions for life offered man, those under U S A's constitution have proved the best. Wherefore, be sure when you start modifying, corrupting or abrogating it. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| The American is a gentle guy; but don't pressure him; if you do he turns toad and squirts poison. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace. |
| - Hamilton Fish |
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| America is a mistake, a giant mistake. |
| - Sigmund Freud |
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| America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. |
| - Sigmund Freud |
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| You have to be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination. |
| - Charles de Gaulle |
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| In America, with all its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we do not know yet whether the sun is rising or setting for our country. |
| - Dick Gregory |
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| Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. |
| - John Gunther |
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| We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit. |
| - Hubert H. Humphrey |
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| What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it. |
| - Hubert H. Humphrey |
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| The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values. |
| - William Ralph Inge |
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| I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. |
| - Henry James |
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| The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. |
| - Thomas Jefferson |
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| Not merely a nation but a nation of nations. |
| - Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise. |
| - Barbara Jordan |
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| We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock. |
| - John F. Kennedy |
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| We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution. |
| - John F. Kennedy |
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| America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos. |
| - Max Lerner |
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| America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. |
| - Abraham Lincoln |
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| The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. |
| - Walter Lippmann |
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| We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated. |
| - Walter Lippmann |
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| I will never admit that the beloved flag is to me merely the symbol of a land where I can live in rich content and make money. |
| - Henry Cabot Lodge |
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| It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the men whose people have been here many generations. |
| - Henry Cabot Lodge |
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| We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities. |
| - Bill Maher |
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| There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class. |
| - Judith Martin |
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| We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations. |
| - Francis John McConnell |
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| America is the only country ever founded on the printed word. |
| - Marshall McLuhan |
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| 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. |
| - Margaret Mead |
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| You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world. |
| - Herman Melville |
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| No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. |
| - Henry Louis Mencken |
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| America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them. |
| - James Albert Michener |
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| Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. |
| - Robert Orben |
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| America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. |
| - Laurence J. Peter |
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| I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father." |
| - Will Rogers |
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| If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership. |
| - Will Rogers |
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| What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds. |
| - Will Rogers |
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| The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men. |
| - Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. |
| - Theodore Roosevelt |
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| What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from." |
| - Marilyn vos Savant |
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| England and America are two countries separated by a common language. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. |
| - Gloria Steinem |
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| 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. |
| - Adlai E. Stevenson |
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| In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. |
| - Adlai E. Stevenson |
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| When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect. |
| - Adlai E. Stevenson |
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| How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy. |
| - Paul Sweeney |
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| Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. |
| - Alexis de Tocqueville |
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| The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through. |
| - Alexis de Tocqueville |
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| America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. |
| - Arnold Toynbee |
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| It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. |
| - John Updike |
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| A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. |
| - Bill Vaughan |
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| Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. |
| - Gore Vidal |
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| I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves. |
| - John Wayne |
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| Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich. |
| - H.G. Wells |
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| America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name. |
| - Woodrow Wilson |
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| Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. |
| - Woodrow Wilson |
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| The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. |
| - Woodrow Wilson |
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| Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. |
| - Thomas Wolfe |
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| ...a "land of the free" that struggles under the incredible burden of limitless taxes and laws; the home of the "brave" who stay silent to keep their jobs and avoid scrutiny by the IRS or the police. |
| - Fred Woodworth |
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| Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American. |
| - Malcolm X |
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| 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. |
| - Israel Zangwill |
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