america quotes by ARNOLD TOYNBEE-1453621103

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.



america quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1453619206

I pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora, fauna and human life that it supports, one planet indivisible, with safe air, water & soil, economic justice, equal rights and peace for all.



america quotes by HAWKEYE-1453617515

I just don't know why they're shooting at us. All we want to do is bring them democracy and white bread. Transplant the American dream. Freedom. Achievement. Hyperacidity. Affluence. Flatulence. Technology. Tension. The inalienable right to an early coronary sitting at your desk while plotting to stab your boss in the back.



america quotes by GORE VIDAL-1453615051

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.



america quotes by HUNTER S. THOMPSON-1453579741

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.



america quotes by FRANCIS JOHN MCCONNELL-1453578097

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us. We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything. She can lead in some things. The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations.



america quotes by RUSSELL BAKER-1453576774

Americans like fat books and thin women.



america quotes by H.L. MENCKEN-1453575175

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.



america quotes by WILL ROGERS-1453573688

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."



america quotes by THOMAS WOLFE-1453572407

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.



america quotes by LAURENCE J. PETER-1453570876

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.



america quotes by SAUL BELLOW-1453569255

Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.



america quotes by ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE-1453567603

Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.



america quotes by G.K. CHESTERTON-1453566292

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.



america quotes by FROM THE MOVIETOMMY BOY-1453565093

What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public.



america quotes by JIMMY CARTER-1453563599

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.



america quotes by CARL N. DEGLER-1453562008

The metaphor of the melting pot is unfortunate and misleading. A more accurate analogy would be a salad bowl, for, though the salad is an entity, the lettuce can still be distinguished from the chicory, the tomatoes from the cabbage.



america quotes by JOHN BURTON BRIMER-1453560697

America is a place where Jewish merchants sell Zen love beads to agnostics for Christmas.



america quotes by CHARLES LUCKMAN-1453559336

The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.



america quotes by GLORIA STEINEM-1453558060

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.



america quotes by BENJAMIN HARRISON-1453554319

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.



america quotes by HENRY CABOT LODGE-1453552602

I will never admit that the beloved flag is to me merely the symbol of a land where I can live in rich content and make money.



america quotes by MARSHALL MCLUHAN-1453541365

America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.



america quotes by WILL ROGERS-1453539884

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.



america quotes by ER-1453538103

Rachel: The pilgrims came here to escape persecution from the British.Elizabeth: Yes, so they could go about persecuting the Indians.



america quotes by HERMAN MELVILLE-1453536886

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.



america quotes by MIRAKEL REVES-1453535288

The skies of happiness shine upon these United States of America.



america quotes by CARRIE LATET-1453534086

May I never wake up from the American dream.



america quotes by PETER ALEXANDER USTINOV-1453532820

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.



america quotes by WALTER LIPPMAN-1453531386

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.



america quotes by GEORGES CLEMENCEAU-1453529840

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.



america quotes by ERIC NICOL-1453527560

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.



america quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1453526188

If you can speak three languages you're trilingual. If you can speak two languages you're bilingual. If you can speak only one language you're an American.



america quotes by WILL ROGERS-1453524847

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.



america quotes by CARRIE LATET-1453523347

America is not just a country but a way.



america quotes by HENRY VAN DYKE-1453521756

Oh, it's home again and home again, America for me! I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea To the blessed land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.



america quotes by HUBERT H. HUMPHREY-1453520476

What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.



america quotes by VAL SAINTSBURY-1453519164

We sleep peacefully at night, cradled by the big strong hands of America.



america quotes by LYNDON B. JOHNSON-1453517783

Not merely a nation but a nation of nations.



america quotes by CARRIE LATET-1453516462

Don't forget to stop every once in a while and actually thank God for blessing America - he gets a lot of requests, you know.



america quotes by JOHN GUNTHER-1453514792

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.



america quotes by MARTIN H. FISCHER-1453513503

Of all the supervised conditions for life offered man, those under USA's constitution have proved the best. Wherefore, be sure when you start modifying, corrupting or abrogating it.



america quotes by VAL SAINTSBURY-1453511847

My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America.



america quotes by CHERISHE ARCHER-1453510232

Star-spangled happinessand banner waves of pride.



america quotes by WOODROW WILSON-1453508641

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.



america quotes by ABRAHAM LINCOLN-1453479377

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.



america quotes by BILL VAUGHAN-1453474589

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.



america quotes by ISRAEL ZANGWILL-1453267029

America is God's crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming!... The real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races.



america quotes by AURORA RAIGNE-1453265409

America is great because it has as much diversity in geographies as it does in peoples.



america quotes by WOODROW WILSON-1453225548

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.



america quotes by THEODORE ROOSEVELT-1453224226

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.



america quotes by AURORA RAIGNE-1453215364

America, for me, has been the pursuit and catching of happiness.



america quotes by RALPH WALDO EMERSON-1453187411

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.



america quotes by BARBARA JORDAN-1453185921

What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.



america quotes by NORMAN THOMAS-1453184630

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.



america quotes by GERALD STANLEY LEE-1453181832

America is a tune. It must be sung together.



america quotes by JAMES T. FARRELL-1453138107

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.



america quotes by JAMES BALDWIN-1453131746

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.



alcohol quotes by PAPPY MAVERICK-1453096278

Never cry over spilt milk. It could've been whiskey.



alcohol quotes by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN-1453051549

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.



alcohol quotes by P.J. O'ROURKE-1453050018

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.



alcohol quotes by JAMES THURBER-1453039824

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.



alcohol quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1453038453

How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells, it never killed the ones that made me want to drink?



alcohol quotes by FROM THE MOVIEARTHUR-1453036952

Everyone who drinks is not a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.



alcohol quotes by HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)-1453035269

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.



alcohol quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1453020062

Life's a waste of time, time's a waste of life so let's all get wasted and have the time of our life.