(4607 quotes found)
“The Americans . . . are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency.”
James Fenimore Cooper
“You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American.”
Woodrow T. Wilson
“I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.”
Adlai E. Stevenson
“Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.”
Dave Barry
“You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.”
Ralph Kiner
“No wonder Americans hate politics, when year in, year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them.”
Bill Clinton
“The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.”
Elbert Hubbard
“The school is that last expenditure upon which Americans should be willing to economize”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake. . . . they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.”
Fannie Lou Hamer
“It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.”
Eric Hoffer
