Americans Quotes

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say "elevator", we say "lift"... they say "President", we say "stupid psychopathic git.

Alexai Sayle

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

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

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

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling

Abraham Lincoln

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers

William Somerset Maugham

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security

Louis Freeh

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

Dan Rather

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

John Steinbeck

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

Bill Vaughn

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced

Elinor Glyn

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor

E. B. White

America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and world war, a struggle for civil and social rights and the brink of nuclear crisis. And it is because our dreamers dreamed that we have emerged from each challenge more united, more prosperous, and more admired than before.

Barack Obama

That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe or hiring somebody's son. That we can participate in the political process without fear of retribution, and that our votes will be counted -- or at least, most of the time.

Barack Obama

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.

Barack Obama