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America Quotes
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America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard. (Quote by - Mikhail Gorbachev)
America! half brother of the world! With something good and bad of every land. (Quote by - Unattributed Author)
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. (Quote by - E. E. Cummings)
October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful. (Quote by - Thomas Merton)
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. (Quote by - Frank Zappa)
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias. (Quote by - William Allen White)
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. (Quote by - Harry S Truman)
America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)
America is another name for opportunity. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train. (Quote by - William E. Geist)
You never saw any husband writing an alimony check in Norman Rockwell's America. (Quote by - George Mendoza)
Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. (Quote by - Hermann Goering)