America
Quotes on America
Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of strange men and uncouth manners.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Irish philosopher, statesman
Of course, America had often been discovered before, but it had always been hushed up.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author
God had a divine purpose in placing this land between two great oceans to be found by those who had a special love of freedom and courage.
Ronald Reagan (b. 1911) American president
America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, hasgone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization
George Clemenceau (1841-1929) French statesman, premier
America is a mistake, a giant mistake!
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Austrian psychiatrist
Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.
John Gunther (1901-1970) American journalist
I believe in America because we have great dreams — and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.
Wendell L Willkie (1892-1944) American lawyer, businessman, politician
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) American president
The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
James Baldwin (1924-1987) American novelist
America is a tune. It must be sung together.
Gerard Stanley Lee (1862-1944) American academic
There is nothing wrong with America that together we can’t fix.
Ronald Reagan (b. 1911) American president
That impersonal insensitive friendliness that takes the place of ceremony in that land of waifs and strays.
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) British novelist
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1889-1975) British historian
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 (b. 1939) American journalist
When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still in the prime of our lusty youth, still at the beginning of our glorious manhood, to sit down among the outworn people, to take our place with the weak and the craven? A thousand times no!
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American president
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author
Woman governs America because America is a land of boys who refuse to grow up.
Salvadore de Madariga (1886-1978) Spanish diplomat, writer,critic
America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.
William S. Burroughs (b. 1914) American author
The great social ‘adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) American journalist
America is God’s Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming.
Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) British author
America, half-brother of the world!
Philip Bailey (1816-1902) British poet
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) American president
The business of America is business.
Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) Amer-can president
In America people never obey people, they obey justice, or the law.
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) French historian, politician
The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) American president
If you think the US has stood still, who built the largest shopping-center in the world? Richard Nixon (b. 1913) American president In America you watch TV and think that’s totally unreal, then you step outside and it’s just the same.
Joan Armatrading (b. 1947) British singer
Your women shall scream like peacocks when they talk, and your men neigh like horses when they laugh.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) British author
I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) British comic actor, director
In Boston they ask, “How much does he know?” In New York, “How much is he worth?” In Philadelphia “Who were his parents?”
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author
A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.
Thomas Appleton (1812-1884) American author
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
John E Kennedy (1917-1963) American president
The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal, they don’t smell. The fruit is unreal, it doesn’t taste of anything. The whole place is a glaring, gaudy, nightmarish set, built upon the desert,
Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959) American actress of Los Angeles
A city with all the personality of a paper cup.
Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) American author of Los Angeles
If you’re going to America, bring your own food.
Fran Lebowitz (b. 1951) American journalist
