~ America and Americans Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The cost of freedom is always high but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose and that is the path of surrender or submission.

John F. Kennedy

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]On account of being a democracy and run by the people we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years no matter what it does.

Will Rogers

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]America should care more for its poor and reform itself in other ways; but even if it won't do those things it remains the least constrained society on earth.

Robert M. Adams

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

Calvin Coolidge

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]When American(s) ask for the cooperation of (their) fellow citizens it is seldom refused; and I have often seen it afforded spontaneously and with great good will.

Alexis de Tocqueville

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Thou too sail on O Shipof State! Sail on O Union strong and great! Humanity with all its fears With all the hopes of future years Is hanging breathless on thy fate!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.

Alexis de Tocqueville

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Americans have a special horror of letting things happen their own way without interference. They would like to jump down their stomachs digest the food and shovel the shit out.

William S. Burroughs

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.

Willard D. Vandiver

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price peace at any price safety first instead of duty first the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.

Theodore Roosevelt

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back.

Thomas Jefferson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Driven from every other corner of the earth freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last resort.

Samuel Adams