(221 quotes found)
“The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax”
Thomas Paine
“New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.”
William E. Geist
“Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it”
Al Capone
“Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.”
Dave Barry
“I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?”
Dwight David Eisenhower
“The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.”
John Steinbeck
“All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.”
Dr. Carl Sagan
“Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest”
Thomas Jefferson
