America - Americans Quotes

What society has so defined itself by the power of its inner desire, by its own yearning to accommodate the fantasies and impulses of its citizens? There is no French Dream, or Russian Dream, or African Dream, or British Dream, but everyone the world over knows about the American Dream. America is the place to […]

America is, the harder you work, the easier the middle class ought to become, and the more money you get to keep. (National Newspaper Association 40th Annual Government Affairs Conference, Washington, D.C., Mar. 22, 2001)

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarianism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.

Well, it’s an unimaginable honor to be the president during the Fourth of July of this country. It means what these words say, for starters. The great inalienable rights of our country. We’re blessed with such values in America. And I – it’s – I’m a proud man to be the nation based upon such […]

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day’s […]

It is the story of a new world that became a friend and liberator of the old. The story of a slave-holding society that became a servant of freedom. The story of a power that went into the world to protect but not possess, to defend but not to conquer. It is the American story.

I came to America tourist Third with a cheque for ten pounds and I leave plus five hundred, a wife, a mandarin coat, a set of diamond studs, a state room and bath, and a decent box for the ferret. That’s what everybody comes to America to do and I don’t think I’ve managed badly […]

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.