America - Americans Quotes

Yours is a society which cannot accept 10,000 dead in one battle.

In the 1770’s surveying the immensity and diversity of London, Dr. Samuel Johnson laid down: “Sir, a man who is tired of London is tired of life.” The saying could be rephrased today. A man who hates America hates humanity.

There are no second acts in American lives.

Albert Einstein would be just another slave-laborer in the Soviet Union or the Third Reich if it were not for the U.S.

America is so decadent that its brilliant children are damned almost before they are born.

America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.

America is a willingness of the heart.

Associate: Forget it, Mr. Goldwyn, its about Lesbians. Goldwyn: That’s okay, we’ll make them Americans.

France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it stil that quality of the idea, was harder to utter – it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before […]

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.