America Quotes - page 19

'World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen," I continued "A person who truly feels: 'The world is my homeland; it is my America, my India, my Philippines, my England, my Africa,' will never lack scope for a useful and happy life. His natural local pride will know limitless expansion; he will be in touch with creative universal currents. (Paramahansa Yogananda)
America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think. View quote
Jerry Garcia
Pat, did you notice yesterday the ACLU, and all the Christ-haters, People For the American Way, NOW, etc. were totally disregarded by the Democrats and the Republicans in both houses of Congress as they went out on the steps and called out on to God in prayer and sang "God Bless America" and said "let the ACLU be hanged"? In other words, when the nation is on its knees, the only normal and natural and spiritual thing to do is what we ought to be doing all the time - calling upon God. View quote
Jerry Falwell
Things have to be done fast in America, and therefore therapy has to be brief. View quote
Gregory Bateson
I recalled when I worked in the woods and the bars of Madras, Oregon. That short-haired joy and roughness America your stupidity. I could almost love you again. View quote
Gary Snyder
In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. View quote
Walter Lippmann
Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America. View quote
Elliott Carter
Greetings, conversationalists across the fruited plain, this is Rush Limbaugh, the most dangerous man in America, with the largest hypothalamus in North America, serving humanity simply by opening my mouth, destined for my own wing in the Museum of Broadcasting, executing everything I do flawlessly with zero mistakes, doing this show with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair because I have talent on loan from... God. Rush Limbaugh. A man. A legend. A way of life. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
America thou half-brother of the world! With something good and bad of every land. View quote
Philip James Bailey
These terrorists aren't trying to kill us because we offended them. They attack us because they want to impose their view of the world on as many people as they can, and America is standing in their way. (Marco Rubio)
America does not seek good for Islam, for the Muslims, and for the repressed. View quote
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
America washes its dirty linen in public. When scandals such as this one hit, they do sully America's image in the world. But what usually also gets broadcast around the world is the vivid reality that the United States forces accountability and punishes wrongdoing, even at the highest levels. View quote
Fareed Zakaria
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no questions were asked.:; In the eighteenth century it had been quite normal and safe to travel in a country with which your own country was at war. View quote
George Orwell
Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate. View quote
Ted Nugent
I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-nurtured subhuman mongrel like the ACORN community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America. View quote
Ted Nugent
If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package. View quote
Ted Nugent
I'm tired of the ayatollahs of the right wing. We're fighting for freedom in Iraq. We're going to fight for freedom in America. View quote
Howard Dean
It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China. View quote
Bertrand Russell
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt. (Woodrow Wilson)
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism? You should know that this slogan, this goal, can certainly be achieved. View quote
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model. I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch. View quote
Clay Aiken
This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl. View quote
Thomas Pynchon