Americans Quotes

The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The ...

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

I wanted to protect my professorial dignity and not lay myself open to laughter from the Americans, ...

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the Americans pr...

In America, they make a lot of fuss over little things.

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

Ours is the country where in order to sell your product you don't so much point out its merits as ...

So why don’t Americans cheat? Because they think that their system is legitimate. People accept auth...

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of...

He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “...

Checking a box on a form for race—"Caucasian," "Hispanic," "African-American," "Native American," or...

America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products thems...

And then this whole deal of new gods, old gods," said his friend. "You ask me, I welcome new gods. B...

Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they ...

I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.

If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.

That strange blend of the commercial traveller the missionary and the barbarian conqueror which wa...

Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff. Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they c...

(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full...

In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars for all passenger...

I was having dinner…in London…when eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part about ...

Americans appreciate bad taste or America wouldn’t look the way America does.

Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the...

Poor Mexico so far from God and so near to the United States.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him ...

It has been observed that all Americans need a frontier: pain was hers, and she was determined to pu...

Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there i...

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America but the business and administrative cen...

If a queen comes to America, crowds fill the station squares, and attendant British journalists rejo...

Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America--we continue to rise and rise, li...

Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is s...

. . . On either side of them the essence of honky tonk beach resort had now enclosed them: gas stati...

The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.

As for what you're calling hard luck - well we made New England out of it. That and codfish.

The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere it is not this sort of licence that distinguishes ...

Good Americans when they die go to Paris.

I'm from Indiana the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.

That enfabled rock that ship of life that swarming million-footed tower-masted sky-soaring cita...

A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.

The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such ...

Larry has been absorbed, as he wished, into that tumultuous conglomeration of humanity, distracted b...

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope...

That’s what money will buy you, in America,” Brown had said, firmly. “People say Americans are mater...

I had the feeling that all over America such stupid arguments were taking place on street corners an...

Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy...

We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic...

Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual le...

The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds an...

The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addi...

Where humanitysowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.

If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully

I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial pro...

It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless ...

The Americans of the United States do not let their dogs hunt the Indians as do the Spaniards in Mex...

The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded.

Every American wants MORE MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in...

The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or ...

But that’s part of what makes America wonderful, is we always had this nagging dissatisfaction that ...

He was an American character, one typical of men of his generation, men who embraced the notion of f...

It’s a funny thing to complain about, but most of America is perfectly devoid of smells. I must have...

In the old Republican days the subject of slavery and of the saving of the Union made appeals to the...

You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We...

What a fine fellow is Quincey! I believe in my heart of hearts that he suffered as much about Lucy’s...

Stormy husky brawling City of the Big Shoulders.

Statistics say that a range of mental disorders affects more than one in four Americans in any given...

I was telling them about back home and how all the boys were chasing me because I was half-caste, an...

Alexa, and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from th...

They never said “I don’t know.” They said, instead, “I’m not sure,” which did not give any informati...

A town that has no ceiling price A town of double-talk A town so big men name her twice Like so: ...

New York the nation's thyroid gland.

America truly is the best idea for a country that anyone has ever come up with so far. Not only beca...

I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets she needs none. There she is. Behold her and judge...

His frustration with some Americans was like that of a disappointed parent. He was so content in thi...

This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, ...

Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not ha...

When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hour...

Chicago - a facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade every type of dubiousness.

We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural societ...

Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an ent...

America is a willingness of the heart.

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples - while judging ourselves by our best inten...

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes A...

Spaniards and Americans are not like Europeans, they are not like Orientals, they have something in ...

The president, the secretary of state, the businessman, the preacher, the vendor, the spies, the cli...

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small Amer...

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes i...

Within he felt that faint stirring of derision for the whole business of life which is the salt of t...

Tewler Americanus in particular was irritated by a harsh logic that overrode his dearest belief in h...

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great big vulgar bustling people...

The President spends most of his time kissing people on the cheek in order to get them to do what th...

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they ho...

The swaggering underemphasis of New England.

All around us were people I had spent ten years avoiding--shapeless women in wool bathing suits, dul...

Whoever wants to know the hearts and minds of America had better learn baseball.

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.

Americans care more about the rights of animals than about what happens to us!

Americans no longer experience vacations. They simply Sony them so they can ignore them for the rest...