Famous america quotations

   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.
 ~ by G.K. Chesterton

   The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
 ~ by Woodrow Wilson

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Wise Words, Witty Proverbs
   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.
 ~ by Franklin D. Roosevelt

   We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.
 ~ by John F. Kennedy

   The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values.
 ~ by William Ralph

   Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
 ~ by Sinclair Lewis

   We're Americans - with a capital A! And do you know what that means? Do you? It means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.
 ~ by From the movie Stripes

   Only Americans can hurt America.
 ~ by Dwight D. Eisenhower

   It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.
 ~ by Chauncey Depew, at an 1881 New England Society meeting in New York

   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.
 ~ by Will Rogers

   I just don't know why they're shooting at us. All we want to do is bring them democracy and white bread. Transplant the American dream. Freedom. Achievement. Hyperacidity. Affluence. Flatulence. Technology. Tension. The inalienable right to an early coronary sitting at your desk while plotting to stab your boss in the back.
 ~ by Hawkeye, M*A*S*H, O.R.

   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.
 ~ by Adlai Stevenson

   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.
 ~ by Herman Melville

   There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
 ~ by William J. Clinton

   Americans always try to do the right thing after they've tried everything else.
 ~ by Winston Churchill

   Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.
 ~ by Richard Cardinal Cushing

   Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
 ~ by Oscar Wilde

   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.
 ~ by e.e. cummings

   America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
 ~ by John Updike

   America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.
 ~ by Marshall McLuhan

   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.
 ~ by Henry James

   America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.
 ~ by Jimmy Carter

   We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.
 ~ by Bill Maher

   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.
 ~ by Theodore Roosevelt

   ...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.
 ~ by Fred Woodworth, The Match!, No. 74



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