American Quotes
September 5, 2010
Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in maters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.
- Samuel Adams
God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.
- Ely Culbertson
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
- John Adams
I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.
- John F. Kennedy
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience.
- Patrick Henry
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
- Thomas Jefferson
I would like to propose a toast to a future of peace for the Soviet and the American people and for all nations on earth, to idealism and idealists, to the health of the president of the United States of America. Mr. George Bush, and Barbara Bush, to the health and well-being of all present here, to the happiness of our children and grandchildren.
- President Gorbachev
I'm not going to be the first American president who loses a war.
- Richard M. Nixon
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
- Marya Mannes
If Americans are going to start worrying about whether they can afford a thing or not, you are going to ruin the whole characteristic of our people.
- Will Rogers
If I have in any degree forgotten what America was intended for, I will thank God if you will remind me. I was born in America. You dreamed dreams of what America was to be, and I hope you brought the dreams with you. No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
- Woodrow Wilson
In some ways, America had grown up to be a masterpiece of self-concern.
- Shirley MacLane
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
- Gertrude Stein
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
- Sinclair Lewis
Is it not, perhaps, America's mission to find "the dream that is coming to birth?"
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is my loving sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment-Independence now and Independence forever.
- Daniel Webster
It is vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace. The war is actually begun. The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms. Our brethren are already in the field. Why stand we here idle? What is it that the gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
- Patrick Henry