Americans Quotes & Sayings

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~ The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. ~

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

~ You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else. ~

Winston Churchill

~ Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people ~

Steve Busby

~ When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment. ~

Andy Rooney

~ Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute -- often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is ~

Charley Reese

~ And so, my fellow Americans: Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man ~

John F. Kennedy

~ While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future. ~

Ronald Reagan

~ 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. ~

G. K. Chesterton

~ When it comes to your health, I recommend frequent doses of that rare commodity among Americans - common sense ~

Vincent Askey

~ Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign language ~

Dave Barry

~ When good Americans die they go to Paris ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war. ~

General George S. Patton

~ Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains. ~

Dwight David Eisenhower

~ Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane. ~

Howard Zinn

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

Robert Frost

~ Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms ~

James Madison

~ If the American dream is for Americans only, it will remain our dream and never be our destiny ~

Rene de Visme Williamson

~ Americans have always been eager for travel, that being how they got to the New World in the first place. ~

Otto Friedrich

~ Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles ~

Paul Fussell

~ The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are no Republicans; there are no Democrats; there are only Americans. ~

Senator John Kerry

~ I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men. ~

J. William Fulbright

~ The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed. ~

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

~ Racism has been an integral component of American culture since its founding upon the genocide of Native Americans, and the forced slavery of Africans and Afro-Americans. ~

Vincent F. Rocchio

~ Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. ~

Paul Fussell

~ A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin ~

Branch Rickey

~ We Americans have so much potential. We just need to cultivate an environment that allows us to let go of our Cro-Magnon nationalism and start living like citizens of earth. ~

Steve Pavlina

~ For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. ~

Henry A. Kissinger

~ Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. ~

Adlai E. Stevenson

~ Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids. ~

Jim Sensenbrenner

~ Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that. ~

Richard Nixon

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