America Quotes - page 73

As Germany was formerly managed it was a millstone about our necks; as managed now, it is a millstone about the neck of France. When I came in, I found the subsidy to Prussia dictated by Hanover, not by Great Britain. I insisted that national defence and America must stand first, nor would I agree to the German war until every other service had been provided for. I acceded to the plan of a Ministry that wanted vigour and borrowed their majority to carry on their own plan. But I carried it on in my own way, and, though that may have been the wrong way, I offer myself confitentem reum, if I have not thereby annihilated French power in the East and West Indies. (William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham)
When trade is at stake, it is your last entrenchment; you must defend it, or perish...Sir, Spain knows the consequence of a war in America; whoever gains, it must prove fatal to her...is this any longer a nation? Is this any longer an English Parliament, if with more ships in your harbours than in all the navies of Europe; with above two millions of people in your American colonies, you will bear to hear of the expediency of receiving from Spain an insecure, unsatisfactory, dishonourable Convention? View quote
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins. View quote
Buenaventura Durruti
I don't want to sneer, but old habits die hard. It's the resentment. Not even anger. Just resentment. I shake my head over the things that concern them, that middle-class stuff, it's too hot, it's too cold and this is not the toothpaste I like. Here am I after three decades in America still happy to be able to turn on the electric light or reach for a towel after the shower. View quote
Frank McCourt
I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food. View quote
Frank McCourt
If you don't settle down to something very soon you'll be forty and wondering where your life went. She pointed to the people all around us, happily married, productive, settled, content, having children, developing mature relationships, looking to the future, going on nice vacations, joining clubs, taking up golf, growing old together, visiting relatives, dreaming of grandchildren, supporting their churches, thinking of retirement. I agreed with her but I couldn't admit it. I gave her a sermon on life and America. I told her life was an adventure, and maybe I was living in the wrong century. View quote
Frank McCourt
It's like in most parts of America, where there was industry and there is no longer; there is cynicism mixed with sarcasm and some optimism. That's how my background influenced my comedy. View quote
Jim Gaffigan
Some people say we are on the verge of the Second Civil War. And it may be so. But even on the darkest days, cheerfulness kept breaking in. I am not by nature a 'Whither America?' man. View quote
Alistair Cooke
The vast number of titles which are published each year-all of them are to the good, even if some of them may annoy or even repel us for a time. For none of us would trade freedom of expression and of ideas for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
No woman has ever stepped on Little America - and we have found it to be the most silent and peaceful place in the world. View quote
Richard E. Byrd
America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity. (Joseph Nye)
When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile. View quote
Mark Hamill
China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution. View quote
James Lovelock
Jon Stewart: And I made a special effort to come on the show today, because I have privately, amongst my friends and also in occasional newspapers and television shows, mentioned this show as being bad. Paul Begala: We have noticed. Stewart: And I wanted to - I felt that that wasn't fair and I should come here and tell you that I don't - it's not so much that it's bad, as it's hurting America. Tucker Carlson: But in its defense - Stewart: But I wanted to come here today and say - Here's just what I wanted to tell you guys: Carlson: Yes. Stewart: Stop. Stop, stop, stop, stop hurting America. View quote
Jon Stewart
Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center. View quote
Jon Stewart
If America leads a blessed life, then why did God put all of our oil under people who hate us? View quote
Jon Stewart
To have not shot his friend in the face would have sent a message to the quail that America is weak. View quote
Jon Stewart
No one is better at not beating America than England. View quote
Jon Stewart
When the film premiered at Cannes 2003, Lars von Trier was accused of not portraying Americans accurately, but how many movies do? Anything by David Spade come to mind? Von Trier could justifiably make a fantasy about America, even an anti-American fantasy, and produce a good film, but here he approaches the ideological subtlety of a raving prophet on a street corner. View quote
Roger Ebert
Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film. View quote
Roger Ebert
I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America. He doesn't love you. And he doesn't love me. He wasn't brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country. (Rudy Giuliani)
Here is a list of the countries that America has been at war with - and bombed - since the second world war: China (1945-46, 1950-53), Korea (1950-53), Guatemala (1954, 1967-69), Indonesia (1958), Cuba (1959-60), the Belgian Congo (1964), Peru (1965), Laos (1964-73), Vietnam (1961-73), Cambodia (1969-70), Grenada (1983), Libya (1986), El Salvador (1980s), Nicaragua (1980s), Panama (1989), Iraq (1991-99), Bosnia (1995), Sudan (1998), Yugoslavia (1999). And now Afghanistan. View quote
Arundhati Roy
Since it is September 11th we're talking about, perhaps it's in the fitness of things that we remember what that date means, not only to those who lost their loved ones in America last year, but to those in other parts of the world to whom that date has long held significance. View quote
Arundhati Roy
America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Children." We've become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies. View quote
Stephen Colbert
And I just like the guy. He's a good joe. Obviously loves his wife, calls her his better half, and polls show America agrees. View quote
Stephen Colbert