~ America and Americans Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The thing we all have to understand to put these last two years in focus is that liberals in this country care more about whether European leaders like us than they do about whether terrorists are killing us.

Rush Limbaugh

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price bear any burden meet any hardship support any friend oppose any foe in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

John F. Kennedy

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The flames kindled on the Fourth of July 1776 have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary they will consume these engines and all who work them.

Thomas Jefferson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars for all passengers being Americans are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyone is satisfied.

Owen Wister

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

Katharine Lee Bates

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

George Washington

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]America is not like a blanket: one piece of unbroken cloth the same color the same texture the same size. America is more like a quilt: many patches many pieces many colors many sizes all woven and held together by a common thread.

Jesse Jackson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

Earl Warren

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of licence that distinguishes New York. It is rather a lust of the total ego for recognition even for eminence. More than elsewhere everybody here wants to be Somebody.

Sydney J. Harris

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Over the years the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.

Colin Powell

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]America is God's crucible the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming!... The Real American has not yet arived. He is only in the crucible Itell you - he will be the fusion of all races the common superman.

Israel Zangwill

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]America has the best doctors the best nurses the best hospitals the best medical technology the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.

Bill Frist

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.

Henry Mencken

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.

Abraham Lincoln