America Sayings & Quotes
These america sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.The slogan 'We will not allow another Cuba' hides the possibility of perpetrating aggressions without fear of reprisal, such as the one carried out against the Dominican Republic or before that the massacre in Panama-and the clear warning stating that Yankee troops are ready to intervene anywhere in America where the ruling regime may be altered, thus endangering their interests. - Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it. Everybody has their own America, and then they have the pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see. - Andy Warhol
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. - Matthew Arnold
America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it. - Andy Warhol
The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism. - Calvin Coolidge
America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men. - Alexander Graham Bell
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. - Abraham Lincoln
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honour or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. - John Adams
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. - Andy Warhol
Who says you have to live by any values other than your own? If the personal freedom America affords has taught us anything, it's that you have only yourself to answer to for doing what you believe in and picking the life you choose. - Harvey Mackay
If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership. - Will Rogers
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. - John Adams
America is not like a blanket, one piece of unbroken cloth, the same colour, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt, many patches, many pieces, many colours, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread. - Rev. Jesse Jackson
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. - Ayn Rand
Bolshevism is knocking at our gates, we can't afford to let it in. We must keep America whole and safe and unspoiled. We must keep the worker away from red literature and red ruses; we must see that his mind remains healthy. - Alphonse 'Al' Capone
When we put aside partisanship, embrace the best ideas regardless of where they come from and work for principled compromise, we can move America not left or right, but forward. - William Jefferson 'Bill' Clinton
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. - Harry S. Truman
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. - Adlai Ewing Stevenson
America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement. It is to be felt as a dramatic force of energy and vitality. We move; we do not stand still. We have not yet arrived at the stock-taking stage. - Martha Graham