Frustrate a Frenchman, he will drink himself to death; an Irishman, he will die of angry hypertension; a Dane, he will shoot himself; an American, he will get drunk, shoot you, then establish a million-dollar aid program for your relatives. Then he will die of an ulcer.
America - Americans Quotes
I’d rather have the United States be the world’s policeman than the Soviet Union be the world’s jailer.
Our place as a nation is and must be with the nations that have left indelibly their impress on the centuries… Those that did not expand passed away and left not so much as a memory behind them. The Roman expanded, the Roman passed away, but the Roman has left the print of his law, […]
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.
America was not planned; it became. Plans made for it fell apart, were forgotten. From being a polyglot nation, Americans became the worst linguists in the world.
America is far from perfect. It has blundered through arrogance, selfishness, cynicism, and a great deal through ignorance. But without America, the history of humanity in the 20th century would have been infinitely more tragic.
I want to be American. America is the coolest place on the face of the Earth. You’ve got freedom of speech. You’ve got McDonald’s.
My fellow Americans, I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes (before he was going to make a radio broadcast, unaware that the mike was on).
At no point in my life have I ever felt as though I were American.
Our manifest destiny is to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.
