America Quotes - Page 2

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

You say to your soldier 'Do this' and he does it. But I am obliged to say to the American 'This is why you ought to do this' and then he does it.

Baron von Steuben

The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.

Hermann Keyserling

America should care more for its poor and reform itself in other ways but even if it won't do those things it remains the least constrained society on earth.

Robert M. Adams

Florida: God's waiting room.

The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist.

The office of the president is such a bastardized thing half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.

Edgar Z. Friedenberg

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true and the opposite is probably equally true.

James T. Farrell

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

Marshall McLuhan

If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.

o.henry

If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully

Abraham Lincoln

Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth that there are no gains without pains.

Adlai Stevenson

Ours is the country where in order to sell your product you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.

Louis Kronenberger

People who leave Washington D.C. do so by way of the box - ballot or coffin.

Poor Mexico so far from God and so near to the United States.

That strange blend of the commercial traveller the missionary and the barbarian conqueror which was the American abroad.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game ! and lost.

The President spends most of his time kissing people on the cheek in order to get them to do what they ought to do without getting kissed.

Harry S. Truman

The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded.

Thou oh my country hast thy foolish ways Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Wendell Phillips

America is a willingness of the heart.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

Nothing ever gets settled in this town (Washington). It's not like running a company or even a university. It's a seething debating society in which the debate never stops in which people never give up including me and that's the atmosphere in which you administer.

George P. Shultz

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

President William J. Clinton

Needless to say, this fragile experiment began by taking for granted the ugly conquest of Amerindians and Mexicans, the exclusion of women, the subordination of European working-class men and the closeting of homosexuals. These realities made many of the words of the revolutionary Declaration of Independence ring a bit hollow. yet the enslavement of Africans -- over 20 percent of the population -- served as the linchpin of American democracy; that is, the much-heralded stability and continuity of American democracy was predicated upon black oppression and degradation. Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white -- they would be only Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and others engaged in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over resources and identity.

America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say “perception” because America is a very all-or-nothing society… We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory wasn’t uncontested, it was positively devastating.

We criticize Americans for not being able either to analyse or conceptualize. But this is a wrong-headed critique. It is we who imagine that everything culminates in transcendence, and that nothing exists which has not been conceptualized. Not only do they care little for such a view, but their perspective is the very opposite: it is not conceptualizing reality, but realizing concepts and materializing ideas, that interests them. The ideas of the religion and enlightened morality of the eighteenth century certainly, but also dreams, scientific values, and sexual perversions. Materializing freedom, but also the unconscious. Our phantasies around space and fiction, but also our phantasies of sincerity and virtue, or our mad dreams of technicity. Everything that has been dreamt on this side of the Atlantic has a chance of being realized on the other. They build the real out of ideas. We transform the real into ideas, or into ideology.

Jean Baudrillard

According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.

Chuck Palahniuk

Pulling out onto the highway I noticed a stone pillar commemorating the Donner Party. They were a true testament to the American spirit, push forward at all costs and eat the dead when necessary. Wasn’t that the American dream in a nutshell.

It is no wonder that Satan hates the family and has hurled his venom against it in the form of Communism.

William R. Bowen

Whether or not, he felt very much at home in this state. It was to places like this that they had sent him all over the world in defense of New York, until he had come almost to believe that the concrete caverns and towers he seemed dimly to remember, the pale people themselves, were no more than childhood fantasies he had dreamed for himself. He had felt little urge to try to find them again. Hopefully he had followed the Cat out to the new coast, only to find there the same grotesque imaginary cities already erected and fanatically maintained by old children. It was his loss alone that he could not play at their game with them, but he could not. He had been born in New York, taught the rules in New York and New England, yet it seemed to him that he had been holding his breath until he reached Arivada, New Africa. Here the dream cities, no matter whether adobe or gold, had long ago been abandoned, thus had collapsed, and all that remained was the earth. It spread around him as drab and coarse as an old army blanket, inviting only those weary with fighting or dying, overlooked by the children. If still in one piece the whole world would look like this in old age - Arivada was ready, but could Manhattan support mesquite?

My non American viewers. Who understand that the world does not consist solely of a single nation sailing across an infinite sea of migrant workers. Will no doubt have heard that the waters surrounding Brisbane got tired of waiting for people to hit the beach and decided to bring the party to us.

Yahtzee Croshaw

it's difficult to root for America when the villains of the story live in a ditch and are armed with jagged rocks. At some point in recent years they looked up from their international heroism to realize they'd alienated the entire world.

Yahtzee Croshaw

Of all America’s natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony.

Markham Shaw Pyle

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

America needs to relearn a lost discipline, self-confident relentlessness...

Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.

Winston Churchill

I wonder if she’s infatuated enough to let me lock her in a box with me on a cool fall day and make love like America depends on us.

Darnell Lamont Walker

If America runs on Dunkin', do I detect a slight limp?

For four centuries now, the American people have resigned themselves to natural disasters and acts of God: floods, prairie fires, blizzards, tornados, hurricanes, dust bowls, epidemics, academics, lawyers, and politicians.

Markham Shaw Pyle

The picture of me just after I’d found out Aspen was saving up to marry me. I looked radiant, hopeful, beautiful. I looked like I was in love. And some idiot thought that love was for Prince Maxon.

She couldn’t have been more than twelve years old. In her hands was a sign that said RED-HEADS RULE! with a little crown painted in the corner and tiny stars everywhere. I knew I was the only redhead in the competition, and I noticed that her hair and mine were very nearly the same shade.

My shoes I got to pick. I chose worn-out red flats. I figured I should make it clear from the start that I wasn’t princess material.

So here I was expecting at the very best a cordial welcome from the girls who were prepared to fight me to the death for someone I didn’t want. Instead I was embraced.

I don’t think any girl in all of Illéa could have been smiling more than me.

I had to stop myself from laughing. Who needs help taking a pill?

He wasn’t allowed to come with me there—my own rule for thislittle adventure.No more.Good-bye, Aspen.

So far, I had a solid collection of my honest opinions…

She must have been debating staying in the line or forcing me to run home and change.

And Carolina will be cheering on the beautiful daughter of Magda and Shalom Singer, the new Lady America Singer!

I thought about the cameras following me in the terminal and pictured my family watching my entrance on TV. I hoped they’d be proud.

He was an American character, one typical of men of his generation, men who embraced the notion of freedom and individualism and the open road without always knowing its price, and whose enthusiasms could as easily lead to the cowardice of McCarthyism as to the heroics of World War II. Men who were both dangerous and promising precisely because of their fundamental innocence; men prone, in the end, to disappointment.

In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival.

The young man looked down from the cart at the people in front of him. Jonah felt his teacher’s eyes meet his own, and for a fraction of a second a smile played on the prisoner’s lips. Then he glanced toward heaven and spoke. “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

In a lot of ways that poor little potato' – Evan pointed directly at Jade’s French fries – 'symbolizes the reckless consumerism that plagues America.

Francine Pascal

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

- Just that. Your family must be very different from mine.- I’d say so. - I laughed. - For one, no one wears their tiaras to breakfast.- Maxon smiled. - More of a dinner thing at the Singer house?”- “Of course.

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