~ America and Americans Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The women of this nation in 1876 have greater cause for discontent rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

Susan B. Anthony

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]A town that has no ceiling price A town of double-talk; A town so big men name her twice Like so: 'N'Yawk N'Yawk.'

Christopher Morley

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

Alexis de Tocqueville

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets; she needs none. There she is. Behold her and judge for yourselves.

Daniel Webster

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]In the United States doing good has come to be like patriotism a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

Henry Mencken

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Wendell Phillips

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.

Gertrude Stein

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true and the opposite is probably equally true.

James T. Farrell

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came an Indian said simply 'Ours.'

Vine Deloria

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

Theodore Roosevelt

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]That strange blend of the commercial traveller the missionary and the barbarian conqueror which was the American abroad.

Olaf Stapledon

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty as they do air without thought or appreciation.

Dean Acheson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

Alexis de Tocqueville