America Quotes
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.
~Kurt Vonnegut
~Kurt Vonnegut
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
~Bill Vaughan
A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples - in particular the United States of America - fought so that we Germans could live in liberty. That we should never forget.
~Horst Koehler
~Horst Koehler
A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.
~Arthur C. Clarke
~Arthur C. Clarke
A lot of the Warp stuff has infected people's minds 'cause they're at the point where they can put tracks out, 'cause electronics are cheaper in America and kids are richer generally.
~Sean Booth
~Sean Booth
Abortion on demand, throughout the full nine months of a pregnancy, for virtually any reason, became public policy in the United States of America. No other developed democracy had, or has, such a permissive abortion regime.
~Robert Casey
~Robert Casey
After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.
~Nguyen Cao Ky
~Nguyen Cao Ky
All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.
~Thomas Beecham
~Thomas Beecham
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
~Herbert Hoover
~Herbert Hoover
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
~John Quincy Adams
~John Quincy Adams
America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.
~Bill Frist
~Bill Frist
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
~Oscar Wilde
~Oscar Wilde
America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.
~Patti Davis
~Patti Davis
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
~Louis D. Brandeis
~Louis D. Brandeis
America has long been the leader of the free world. But we did not get there in an easy way. Likewise, Iraq is not going to get there in an easy way.
~Saxby Chambliss
~Saxby Chambliss
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused ? preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
~George W. Bush
~George W. Bush
America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.
~George W. Bush
~George W. Bush
America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
~Alexander Graham Bell
~Alexander Graham Bell
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
~Laurence J. Peter
America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.
~Anna Quindlen
~Anna Quindlen
America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.
~George W. Bush
~George W. Bush
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
~Arnold Toynbee
~Arnold Toynbee
America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
~Will Rogers
~Will Rogers
America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
~George W. Bush
~George W. Bush
America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.
~Claire Wolfe
~Claire Wolfe
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
~Will Rogers
~Will Rogers
America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
~Peter Kropotkin
~Peter Kropotkin
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
~Peter Kropotkin
~Peter Kropotkin
America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.
~Bill Frist
~Bill Frist
America is stronger than ever. We will forever remember those we lost on September 11, 2001. In honoring their memory, we will remain true to our commitment to freedom and democracy.
~Evan Bayh
~Evan Bayh
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
~John Barrymore
~John Barrymore
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
~John Barrymore
America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.
~Dinesh D'Souza
~Dinesh D'Souza
America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
~George W. Bush
~George W. Bush
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
~Oscar Wilde
~Oscar Wilde
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
~Georges Clemenceau
~Georges Clemenceau
America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.
~Georg W. Hegel
~Georg W. Hegel
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
~Woodrow Wilson
~Woodrow Wilson
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