Americans Quotes

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

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

Otto Friedrich

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

Rene de Visme Williamson

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

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

Howard Zinn

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 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

When good Americans die they go to Paris

Oscar Wilde

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

Vincent Askey

The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world.

Jean Baudrillard

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

Adlai E. Stevenson

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

Dan Rather

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy