American quotes

Brown H. Rap 1943-

I say violence is necessary.It is as American as cherry pie.

Chesterton G.K. 1874-1936

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.

Coolidge Calvin 1872-1933

The chief business of the American people is business.

Fitzhenry R.I.

The Englishman loves to roll his tongue around the word, „extraordinary."
It so pleases him that he is reluctant to finish the sound which goes on into harmonics and overtones.The American publisher is likewise inclined.

Friedenberg Edgar Z.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.

Johnson Lyndon B. 1908-1973

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

Kennedy John F. 1917-1963

(accepting the Democratic nomination)

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier...
But the New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises-it is a set of challenges.It sums up not what I intend to offer the
American people,but what I intend to ask of them.

Maugham W. Somerset 1874-1965

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

Mencken H.L. 1880-1956

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

Nixon Richard 1913-1994

I let tne American people down,and I have to carry that burden for the rest of my life.
My political life is over.I will never again have an opportunity to serve in any official position.Maybe I can give a little advice from time to time.

Page William Tyler 1868-1942

American's Creed

A perfect Union,one and inseparable,established upon those principles of freedom,equality,justice,and humanity for which
American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes.

Roosevelt Franklin 1882-1945

(accepting Presidential nomination)

I pledge you,I pledge myself,to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order
of competence and courage.This is a call to arms.

Steuben Baron von 1730-1794

You say to your soldier, „Do this" and he does it. But I am obliged to say to the American, „This is why you ought to do this" and then he does it.

Updike John 1932-

The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal.The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible,like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist.