American Quotes

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American. (Daniel Webster)
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. View quote
Gore Vidal
We're going to have the best educated American people in the world. View quote
Dan Quayle
I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together. View quote
Charles Dickens
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men. View quote
Charles Darwin
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. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the Romish clergy. View quote
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice. View quote
Moshe Dayan
When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, Sir, was then the primary object. View quote
Patrick Henry
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. (Carl Sagan)
Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero. View quote
Morgan Freeman
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. View quote
William Dean Howells
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill. View quote
Peter Ustinov
The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. View quote
Toni Morrison
I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult. View quote
Arthur Miller
I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order. View quote
Lyndon B. Johnson
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. View quote
Ronald Reagan
I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread. View quote
Bill Cosby
Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour. (Mike Myers)
No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman. View quote
Israel Zangwill
America is Gods Crucible, the greatest Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming ... God is making the American. View quote
Israel Zangwill
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. View quote
James Thurber