Quotes
Quotes about America
Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.
One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making units, the structuring of their incentives, and the counterbalancing of the units against one another, rather than on the more usual (and more exciting) principle of substituting "the good guys" for "the bad guys.".
For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axisâan American decision that this is sport, or that it is business. - The American Character.
The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.
It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the worldâit's the American way of looking at things.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
The American people have a right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear.
This administration has broken faith with the people of America. They have squandered the immense good will extended by other nations.
We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.
The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
The American presidency will demand more than ringing manifestos issued from the rear of the battle. It will demand that the President place himself in the very thick of the fight; that he care passionately about the fate of the people he leads ...
Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.
Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health.
The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American...is far more virulent than any antipathy he can work up against foreigners...Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make. â¢Vice President Dan Quayle Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another. â¢Ambrose Bierce You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writes in the world.
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar.
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
