America - Americans Quotes

And I dreamed I was dying, And I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly And looking back down at me, Smiled reassuringly, And I dreamed I was flying, And high up above my eyes could clearly see, The Statue of Liberty Sailing away to sea, And I dreamed I was flying. We come on the […]

American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off.

The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.

The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.

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 […]