America Quotes
Top 35 America
Quotes
No 1 (Best
quote!)![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-jefferson.jpg)
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
- Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American
president, pictured right
(from the American
Declaration of Independence)
No 2![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-patton.jpg)
Americans love a winner.
- George Patton (1885-1945), American World War Two general,pictured right
No 3![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-lazarus.jpg)
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,![America Quotes Advertising Quotes](images/quoteslazamer3.jpg)
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
(the inscription on the Statue of Liberty, New York, pictured right)
- Emma Lazarus (1849–87) American poet, pictured right above.
No 4![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-coolidge.jpg)
The chief business of the American people is business.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American president , pictured right
No 5![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-franklin.jpg)
Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
Benjamin
Franklin (1706-90), the American politician and inventor (pictured right)
No 6![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-whitman.jpg)
The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
- Walt Whitman 1819–92 American poet, pictured right (from the preface of his collection
of poems, Leaves of Grass)
No 7![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-scott-key.jpg)
'Tis the star-spangled banner; O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!
- Francis Scott Key 1779–1843, American writer (pictured right) - from his poem and now
part of the American national anthem.
No 8![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-malcolm-x.jpg)
If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison.
- Malcolm X 1925–65, African American civil rights leader, pictured right
![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-robinson-jackie.jpg)
Jackie Robinson (1919-72), African American baseball player (pictured right) also
comments:
Black America has asked so little, but if you can’t see the anger that comes from rejection, you are treading a
dangerous course.
No 9![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-niebuhr.jpg)
Our gadget-filled paradise suspended in a hell of international insecurity.
- Reinhold
Niebuhr 1892–1971, American theologian, pictured right
No 10![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-roosevelt-fd.jpg)
We must be the great arsenal of democracy.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
American president, pictured right
No 11![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-sondheim.jpg)
I like to be in America! O.K. by me in America! Ev'rything free in America For a small fee in America!
- Stephen Sondheim (1930- ), American songwriter, pictured right
(from his 1957 song America in the musical West Side Story)
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No 12
Some sense of religious mission is part of being American.
- John Updike 1932-2009 American writer,pictured right
No 13![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-wilson.jpg)
America is the only idealistic nation in the world
- Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American president, pictured right.
No 14![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-zangwill.jpg)
America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
- Israel Zangwill (1864–1926) English writer, pictured right
No 15![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-friedman-thomas.jpg)
In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears - and that is
our problem.
- Thomas Friedman (pictured right) in The World is Flat
(2005)
No 16![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-obama.jpg)
The audacity of hope! In the end that is God’s greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation.
- Barack Obama (1961- ) American president,
pictured right
No 17![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-kennedy-jf.jpg)
I look forward to a great future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint,
its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose,
- John F. Kennedy (1917-63), American
president, pictured right.
No 18![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-carter.jpg)
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way round. Human rights invented
America.
- Jimmy Carter (1924- ) , American president, pictured right
No 19![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-stanley.jpg)
America is a tune. It must be sung together.
- Gerald Stanley Lee (1862-1944), American writer, pictured right
No 20![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-king-ml.jpg)
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men,
- Martin Luther King (1929-68), American
civil rights leader, pictured right.
No 21![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-crevecoeur.jpg)
There is room for everybody in America. Has he any particular talent or industry, he exerts it in order to
procure a livelihood, and it succeeds.
- Jean de Crèvecoeur (1713-1813), French-born American writer (pictured right) - from
Letters from an American Farmer, 1782.
No 22![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-tocqueville.jpg)
The free institutions of the United States and the political rights enjoyed there provide a thousand continual
reminders to every citizen that he lives in society...that it is the duty as well as the interest of men to be
useful to their fellows.
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59), French writer (pictured right) -from Democracy in
America, 1835.
No 23![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-boetcker.jpg)
What our country really needs most are those things which money cannot buy.
- William J.H. Boetcker (1873-1962), American religious leader (pictured right).
No 24![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotescar.jpg)
Violence is as American as cherry pie.
- Stokely Carmichael (1941-98), Trinidadian-born American civil rights activist, pictured
right.
No 25![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-paine.jpg)
The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.
- Thomas (Tom)
Paine (1737-1809), English philosopher (pictured right)
No 26![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-henry.jpg)
I am not a Virginian but an American.
- Patrick Henry (1736-99), American
politician (pictured right)
No 27![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-simpson-homer.jpg)
Kill my boss? Do I dare to live out the American dream?
- Homer Simpson, American cartoon
character (pictured right).
No 28![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-fitzgerald.jpg)
There are no second acts in American lives.
- Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) ,pictured right, (from The Last Tycoon ,1941)
No 29![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-kanter.jpg)
Where America leads, it leads because of innovation,
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter (pictured right) in
The Change Masters (1984)
No 30![America Quotes Advertising Quotes](images/quoteshumpamer30.jpg)
We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
- Hubert Humphrey (1911-78), American politician, pictured right
No 31![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-jackson-andrew.jpg)
Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.
Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), American
president, pictured right.
No 32![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-obama.jpg)
The true strength of our nation comes not from the
might of our guns or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty,
opportunity and unyielding hope.
- Barack Obama (1961- ),the American
president (pictured right), on being elected in 2008:
No 33![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-hoover.jpg)
The American system of rugged
individualism
- Herbert
Hoover 1874–1964 American president, pictured right
No 34![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotesrogerswill.jpg)
Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than
golf.
- Will Rogers (1879-1935), American writer and actor, pictured
right.
No 35![America Quotes America Quotes](images/quotes-shaw.jpg)
England and America are two countries divided by a common
language.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish writer, pictured
right.
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