American sayings
September 5, 2010
With all our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans, we are not then fifty states but the United States.
- Richard M. Nixon
Abraham Lincoln was at home and welcome with the humblest and had a spirit and practical vein in the times of terror that commanded the admiration of the wisest. His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
America was the land of education and opportunity. It was a new land to which all people who had youth and a youthful mind turned.
- Claude McKay
Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
- Neil A. Armstrong
I believe the Indian to be in body and mind equal to the white man.
- Thomas Jefferson
In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up, or else we all go down, as one people...
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time the Japanese government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.
- Alistair Cooke
That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
- Abraham Lincoln
The history of America is now the central feature of the history of the world.
- Theodore Roosevelt
They're plain words, those four, simple words. You could write them on your thumbnail, if you chose, or you could sweep them all across the sky, horizon to horizon. But you needn't. You needn't do any of those things, for those words are graven in the hearts of 210,000,000 people. They are familiar to 210,000,000 tongues, every sound and every syllable, but when we speak them we speak them softly, proudly, gratefully: I am an American.
- Hal Borland
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
- George Santayana
We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people-the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.
- Herman Melville
We are moving forward to greater freedom, to greater security for the average man than he has ever known before in the history of America.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
We know the strength of America. We are strong. We can regain our unity. We can regain our confidence. We are the heirs of generations who survived threats much more powerful and awesome than those that challenge us now. Our fathers and mothers were strong men and women who shaped a new society during the Great Depression, who fought world wars, and who carved out a new charter of peace for the world.
- Jimmy Carter
We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression-everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way-everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want...everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear...anywhere in the world.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph. So help us God.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Yet, for all of that the amazing American is still a pretty nice guy. Despite all that he is not, because of all that he is, calling anybody "a real American" is still the highest compliment you can pay.
- Unknown