Americans Quotes
We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.
Mark Twain
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson
When good Americans die they go to Paris.
Oscar Wilde
Americans have different ways of saying things. They say "elevator", we say "lift"... they say "President", we say "stupid psychopathic git.
Alexai Sayle
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
Americans ... still believe in an America where anything's possible -- they just don't think their leaders do.
Barack Obama
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Ronald Reagan
If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human Being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.
General Dwight David Eisenhower
Americans can eat garbage, provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup, mustard, chili sauce, Tabasco sauce, cayenne pepper, or any other condiment which destroys the original flavor of the dish
Henry Miller
I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives...the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our nation.
Bill Clinton
If Americans ever allow banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless
Thomas Jefferson
Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.
Jane Addams
Sometimes I think we Americans are the loneliest people in the world. To be sure, we hunger for the power of affection, the self-acceptance that gives life. It is the oldest and strongest hunger in the world. But hungering is not enough.
Sherwood Anderson
The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.
John David Ashcroft
