My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America. ~Val Saintsbury
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. – Oscar Wilde
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America – that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. ~Thomas Wolfe
We have no desire to be the world’s policeman. But America does want to be the world’s peacemaker.
~Jimmy Carter
I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.
~ Daniel Webster
America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
~Bono
He only salutes the flag with one finger.
~The Simpsons
The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys.
~Dave Beard
America’s future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
~ Jane Addams
I still believe in a place called Hope, a place called America.
~Bill Clinton
When good Americans die they go to Paris.
~ Oscar Wilde
America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes
~ Ayn Rand
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Americans have different ways of saying things. They say elevator, we say lift… they say President, we say stupid psychopathic git.
~ Alexai Sayle
What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
~ Carlos Fuentes
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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
America is not like a large blanket, 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 single thread. ~ Rev. Jesse Jackson
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
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
~John Updike
Those who expect to reap the benefits of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
~Thomas Paine
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
~H.L. Mencken
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ~Gore Vidal
The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values. ~William Ralph
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America.
~Jimmy Carter
America needs to be a lot more like the Waltons and a lot less like the Simpsons.
~George W Bush