America And Americans Quotes


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There should be absolutely no "Separation of Church and State" in America

- David Barton

We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.

- Ann Hurley

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

- George Washington

When I contemplate the interposition of Providence, as it was visibly manifested, in guiding us through the Revolution, in preparing us for the reception of a general government, and in conciliating the good will of the People of America towards one

- George Washington

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

- Oprah Winfrey

Globalization has altered the dynamics in the White House, as well as between the White House and the Treasury.

- George W. Bush

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

- George W. Bush

"If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow.

- George W. Bush

I am America. I am the part you won`t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

- Muhammad Ali

The whole (global warming) thing is created to destroy America`s free enterprise system and our economic stability

- Jerry Falwell

If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.

- Malcolm X

American grammar doesn`t have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm

- Stephen King

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they`ve tried everything else.

- Winston Churchill

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

- Oscar Wilde

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

- Oscar Wilde

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They`re beautiful. Everybody`s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

- Andy Warhol

You know what they say about Chicago. If you don`t like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.

- Ralph Kiner

If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest

- Thomas Jefferson

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

- Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

- Thomas Jefferson

One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years

- Thomas Wolfe

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say "elevator", we say "lift"... they say "President", we say "stupid psychopathic git.

- Alexai Sayle

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi

- Andre Maurois

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

- Deng Xiaoping

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

- Elbert Hubbard

The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.

- Henry Louis Mencken

Chicago ain`t no sissy town.

- Hinky Dink Kenna

If you`re going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair

- J. B. Phillips

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

From the suites of Davos to the streets of Seattle, there is a growing consensus that globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital.

- John J. Sweeney

Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America`s newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority in the minds of many American editors and publishers.

- Loren Ghiglione

To be a Negro in America is to hope against hope.

- Martin Luther King

I hate this "crime doesn`t pay" stuff. Crime in the United States is perhaps one of the biggest businesses in the world today.

- Peter Kirk

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

- Richard M. Nixon

The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are no Republicans; there are no Democrats; there are only Americans.

- Senator John Kerry

Great physicians and nurses, skilled, caring and unparalleled in their training, intervened in my life and probably saved it. I was lucky but other Americans are not. It is time to speak again and stand again for the ideal that in the richest nation ever on this planet, it is wrong for 41 million Americans, most of them in working families, to worry at night and wake up in the morning without the basic protection of health insurance.

- Senator John Kerry

(America is) a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.

- Theodore Parker

“I hated anyone from Scotland who lost their accent in the slightest."

- Gerard Butler

"When Sheena Easton made it in America and suddenly stared talking in an accent I swore and threw shoes at her on the television."

- Gerard Butler

“I’m not comfortable enough do American accents only when we film so I have to keep it up all the time. I really hate myself for doing that.”

- Gerard Butler