America - Americans Quotes

In the field of world policy, I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.

Americanism is a question of principle, of purpose, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace or creed or line of descent.

Few productive class Americans understand (yet) that they stagger under taxes five times greater than those endured by a medieval European serf. What they do understand is that the harder they work the less they have left – and the less they have to look forward to.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

If I were asked to name the three influences which I thought were most dangerous to the perpetuity of American institutions, I should name corruption in business and politics alike; lawless violence; and mendacity, especially used in connection with slander. We Americans are children of the crucible. Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, […]

In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered? or what old ones have they analyzed? What new constellations have […]

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

In America everything goes and nothing matters. While in Europe nothing goes and everything matters.

Why is it, whenever a group of internationalists get together, they always decide that Uncle Sam must be the goat?

We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all of mankind.