America Quotes - page 3

If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans. (Stephen Hawking)

I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.

Hashemi Rafsanjani

America is not a young land it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

William S. Burroughs

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Carl Sandburg

What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

William Saroyan

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

Gloria Steinem

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

Marilyn vos Savant

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

George H. W. Bush

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

Jimmy Carter

I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.

Shirley Chisholm

In America you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same. (Joan Armatrading)

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

Mary McCarthy

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

Matthew Arnold

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

James Baldwin

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Oscar Wilde

Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress past the Constitution.

Glenn Beck

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.

Adlai Stevenson II

America... It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.

Thomas Wolfe

Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all.

Bob Dole

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

Leon Trotsky

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life. (Theodore Roosevelt)

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

James A. Michener

And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.

Phil Ochs

Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.

Phil Ochs

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?

H. G. Wells

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