(221 quotes found)
“There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.”
Archibald MacLeish
“Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.”
General George S. Patton
“America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments”
Anatole France
“"If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow.”
George W. Bush
“We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
James Arthur Baldwin
“Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protection; that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government”
George Washington
“American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced”
Elinor Glyn
“Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich”
Robert Frost