~ America and Americans Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I don't intellectually understand you people. I don't understand your hate I don't understand your rage I don't understand what it is about the goodness of this country you can't abide.

Rush Limbaugh

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life secondly to liberty and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

Samuel Adams

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]To those new States whom we welcome to the ranks of the free we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny.

John F. Kennedy

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]In the United States the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

Alexis de Tocqueville

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.

Winston Churchill

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great big vulgar bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

Harold Macmillan

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]America...just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

Hunter S. Thompson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Our country offers the most wonderful example of democratic government on a giant scale that the world has ever seen; and the peoples of the world are watching to see whether we succeed or fail.

Theodore Roosevelt

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.

Daniel Webster

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over heart and thought and all the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

Woodrow Wilson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.

Malcolm X

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]To announce that there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Theodore Roosevelt

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]It was we the people; not we the white male citizens; nor yet we the male citizens; but we the whole people who formed the Union... Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less.

Susan B. Anthony

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist.

John Updike

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom responsible government and human equality.

Adlai E. Stevenson