Only in America – do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.
America - Americans Quotes
Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever.
If the American dream is for Americans only, it will remain our dream and never be our destiny.
Only in America – do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.
Only in America – do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front of the store.
What can we do with the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rockbound cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have we for such a country? I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific Ocean one inch nearer Boston than it is now.
We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency – clear disinterested thinking and fearless action along the right lines of thought.
America is a tune that must be sung together.
