America Quotes

Thou oh my country hast thy foolish ways Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Whoever wants to know the hearts and minds of America had better learn baseball.

The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century.

Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out and two when it is in.

The Americans believe they answered all first questions in 1776: since then they've just been hammering out the practical details.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came an Indian said simply 'Ours.'

The true America is the Middle West and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.

America once had the clarity of a pioneer axe.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.

You say to your soldier 'Do this' and he does it. But I am obliged to say to the American 'This is why you ought to do this' and then he does it.

America should care more for its poor and reform itself in other ways but even if it won't do those things it remains the least constrained society on earth.

Florida: God's waiting room.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

Good Americans when they die go to Paris.

New York is notoriously inhospitable to the past disowning it whenever it can.

Why if you're not in New York you are camping out.

That enfabled rock that ship of life that swarming million-footed tower-masted sky-soaring citadel that bears the magic name of the Island of Manhattan.

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great big vulgar bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

As for what you're calling hard luck - well we made New England out of it. That and codfish.

After twenty annual visits I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

He speaks English with the flawless imperfection of a New Yorker.

And this is good old Boston The home of the bean and the cod - Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots And the Cabots talk only to God.

A Bostonian - an American broadly speaking.

The swaggering underemphasis of New England.

A well-established village in New England or the northern Middle-West could afford a town drunkard a town atheist and a few Democrats.

I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets she needs none. There she is. Behold her and judge for yourselves.

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

America - the best poor man's country in the world.

Chicago - a facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade every type of dubiousness.

I'm from Indiana the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.

Pennsylvania the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

Stormy husky brawling City of the Big Shoulders.

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

Washington is a city of people doing badly what shouldn't be done at all.

America and its demons Europe and its ghosts.

Hail Columbia! happy land! Hail ye heroes! heavenborn band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.

Thou too sail on O Shipof State! Sail on O Union strong and great! Humanity with all its fears With all the hopes of future years Is hanging breathless on thy fate!

I was born an American I live an American I shall die an American.

The people of the United States will do anything for Latin America, except read about it.

In America, our differences matter, but our country matters more. That's the attitude I wanted to take to the Senate.

I trained as a journalist in America where paying sources is frowned upon. Now I work in the U.K. where there is a more flexible attitude.

The torch America carries is one of decency and hope. It is not America's torch alone. But it is America's duty - and honor - to hold it high enough that all the world can see its light.

The people who harvest America's food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage.

When I came to America, I dreamed bigger dreams.

Conquering America for a U.K. artist is incredible because that's what everybody wants and dreams about. The accomplishment is dominating a market which you aren't familiar with.

America's legacy has been crafted by generations of hard-working men and women who moved to the United States from all over the globe to pursue their dreams.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years.