American Quotes

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute o...

Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas...

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting you have th...

In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are...

I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next...

When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a come...

I created 'America's Next Top Model' one-hundred percent. I was in my kitchen making tea one morning...

...am so deeply impressed with the fair mindedness and tolerance of the American people...

The American people spend thousands of dollars to propagate the doctrines of the fall of man, the cr...

The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.

An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in o...

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivin...

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his ...

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

I do not say these things for a dollar, or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat;

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend ...

The American really loves nothing but his automobile: not his wife his child nor his country nor eve...

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American pe...

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization w...

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I neve...

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I’m from America, I consider myself an Armeni...

it ain't as hard as picking cotton

The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat ...

Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see Americ...

An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that at...

The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of ...

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of...

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativi...

The campaign finance scandal in America is the global warming of American political life - with cash...

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time o...

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks t...

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with...

Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your me...

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the...

For most Americans, our most precious possession is citizenship in this amazing country.

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things,That draws oblivion's curtains over kings;Their sumptuous mo...

The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle tha...

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz....

We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadersh...

Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the ...

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this...

The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democrac...

We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them ...

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my spec...

What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporter...

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat...

I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called ...

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of...

I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social con...

You know, I'm just not going to get into American politics.

In 2009, UnitedHealth, a leading insurance company, paid $350 million to settle lawsuits brought by ...

I see a future where American companies lead the world in the production of hybrid-plug in cars and ...

The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a...

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact th...

One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. A...

Saturday night at my house, I often trot out classic movies and force the urchins to watch them. The...

The oil companies are regulated by the federal government. They can't drill on land nor in American ...

Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a dive...

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know...

'Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American c...

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifesty...

'Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American c...

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifesty...

'Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American c...

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifesty...

'Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American c...

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifesty...

'Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American c...

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifesty...

'Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American c...

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifesty...

'Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American c...

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifesty...

'Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American c...

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifesty...

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being...

The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better w...

The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced ba...

Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people - real ...

The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents...

Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders t...

I think the American people are looking for real leadership. That's what I've done in Louisiana, tha...

I have to return some videotapes

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that...

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is...

The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by th...

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single lar...

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wise...

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been ...

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the Am...

Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power....

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing...

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.