America Quotes - page 2

America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process. (Arianna Huffington)
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. View quote
Oscar Wilde
America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version. View quote
Don DeLillo
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
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
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. View quote
Herbert Hoover
In America nothing dies easier than tradition. View quote
Russell Baker
In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses. View quote
Russell Baker
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. View quote
Peter Ustinov
I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President. (Charlie Chaplin)
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks. View quote
John Barrymore
All great change in America begins at the dinner table. View quote
Ronald Reagan
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. View quote
Bill Clinton
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
I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America! View quote
Harry S. Truman
All the perplexities, confusions, and distress in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation. View quote
John Adams
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. View quote
John Adams
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. (Alexis de Tocqueville)
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat. View quote
George Carlin
If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. View quote
Henry James