America Quotes

I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, a...

writers like Jack Kerouac (who called himself an "urban Thoreau") set forth to redefine and rediscov...

The first time probably people really were aware of me, I unfortunately had the title of Showtime's ...

America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it wo...

On coming to America I had the same hopes as have most European immigrants and the same disillusionm...

Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal thi...

Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the ...

At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whet...

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, ...

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that ge...

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this clou...

America is a willingness of the heart.

For America is composed not of two sorts of people, but of two frames of mind - the first engaged in...

I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he...

Jefferson's fear was that without such a system of public education, the country would end up being ...

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and ...

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

I partied in every capital in Europe, basked on all the famous beaches, and good-timed it in South A...

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of ...

When I came to America, I dreamed bigger dreams.

I venture the challenging statement that if American democracy ceases to move forward as a living fo...

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority o...

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America wa...

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants a...

Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well th...

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the fu...

In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky — her grand old woods —...

The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and...

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have f...

We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and fr...

We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving i...

The Government finally decidedTo wage the war all-out. Defeat is Un-American. And they took to the a...

And as if by magic - and it may have been magic, for I believe America is the land of magic, and tha...

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator...

You know what these “God Bless America” people oughta do? They oughta check with that Jesus fellow t...

That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite direct...

In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open societ...

My father once told me that American democracy is a people’s democracy at heart, and that it therefo...

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror ...

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead sho...

It will take time to restore chaos

Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples - while judging ourselves by our best inten...

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no ...

Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputab...

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppre...

I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, i...

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes A...

I know people who are embarrassed to be American. They don't like showing their passports. It's beco...

People came here for a reason, to follow their conscience, to be free!

I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hou...

Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung...

The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please...

By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We als...

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small Amer...

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes i...

Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live ...

America is the one rich country with the biggest slums, the least democratic and least developed hea...

Public men in America are too public. Too accessible. This sitting on the stoop and being 'just folk...

Tewler Americanus in particular was irritated by a harsh logic that overrode his dearest belief in h...

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.

We are, in fact, a nation of evangelists; every third American devotes himself to improving and lift...

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great big vulgar bustling people...

It's pretty generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do abou...

Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of thi...

[Americans] have realized many things for which the rest of the world is still struggling...[yet] th...

When Hughes writes, in the first two lines of his poem, “Let America be America again/ Let it be the...

It's time that America's government lived by the same values as America's families. It's time we inv...

Anarchists have taken over (the GOP).

The President spends most of his time kissing people on the cheek in order to get them to do what th...

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

You cannot criticize Israel in this country (USA) and survive

Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, ei...

Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey th...

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I wou...

Out in the stone-pile the toad squatted with its glowing jewel-eyes and, maybe, its memories. I don'...

You see, a witch has to have a familiar, some little animal like a cat or a toad. He helps her someh...

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the gro...

The continent is full of buried violence, of the bones of antediluvian monsters and of lost races of...

We defend with our lives the petty principles which divide us. The common principle, which is the es...

It’s best to keep America just like that, always in the background, a sort of picture post card whic...

It's best to keep America just like that, always in the background, a sort of picture post card whic...

There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would t...

I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacifi...

America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.

To anger female voters in America is to tread on the tiger's tail. Women turn out in huge numbers, a...

Thou too sail on O Shipof State! Sail on O Union strong and great! Humanity with all its fears ...

One if by land, two if by sea.

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooli...

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows thr...

We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before.

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are n...