220 America Quotes to Ignite Your Patriotism and Inspire Greatness

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Famous America Quotes

America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time. — Thomas Wolfe

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco. - Frederic Auguste Bartholdi

America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco. — Frederic Auguste Bartholdi

America is best described by one word, freedom. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave. — Dave Grohl

America is a lunatic asylum. — Ezra Pound

America is a mistake, a giant mistake. - Sigmund Freud

America is a mistake, a giant mistake. — Sigmund Freud

Why is America such a great country. It is because we stand united. — Martin Yan

God bless America, land that I love. — Irving Berlin

America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought. — Benazir Bhutto

America is a tune. It must be sung together. — Gerald Stanley Lee

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation -- with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people. — Lord Byron

America .. the international Jekyll and Hyde ... the land of a thousand disguises, sneaks up on you but rarely surprises — Gil Scott-Heron

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos. — Max Lerner

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. — Arnold J. Toynbee

Short America Quotes

  • That's not a chip on my shoulder, that's your foot on my neck. — Malcolm X
  • God created war so that Americans would learn geography. — Mark Twain
  • Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible. — Corrie Ten Boom
  • The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low. — Hunter S. Thompson
  • God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible. — William Booth
  • In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem. — George Carlin
  • As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue. — Immortal Technique
  • One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk. — Crazy Horse
  • After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. — William S. Burroughs
  • Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations. — Mae Jemison

America Image Quotes

America quote America is a young country with an old mentality.
America is a young country with an old mentality.
Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe. - Langston Hughes quote

Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe. — Langston Hughes

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. - Walter Cronkite quote

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. — Walter Cronkite

One day every major city in America will have a telephone. - Alexander Graham Bell quote

One day every major city in America will have a telephone. — Alexander Graham Bell

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron. - Barbara Mikulski quote

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron. — Barbara Mikulski

Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. - Jackie Mason quote

Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. — Jackie Mason

Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon. - Richard Neal quote

Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon. — Richard Neal

I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money. - Bob Hope quote

I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money. — Bob Hope

I had this odd sibling rivalry with America. - Patti Davis quote

I had this odd sibling rivalry with America. — Patti Davis

I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it. - George Pickett quote

I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it. — George Pickett

I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America. - Parminder Nagra quote

I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America. — Parminder Nagra

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America. - Sara Paretsky quote

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America. — Sara Paretsky

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it. - Eric Nicol quote

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it. — Eric Nicol

NRA - Nuts Running America. - Huey Long quote

NRA - Nuts Running America. — Huey Long

I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here. - Paul Mooney quote

I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here. — Paul Mooney

And freedom is what America means to the world. - Audie Murphy quote

And freedom is what America means to the world. — Audie Murphy

I am the dream and the hope of the slave - Maya Angelou quote

I am the dream and the hope of the slave — Maya Angelou

England and America are two countries separated by the same language. - George Bernard Shaw quote

England and America are two countries separated by the same language. — George Bernard Shaw

Porches are America's lost rooms. - Barbara Grizzuti Harrison quote

Porches are America's lost rooms. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. - Alexis de Tocqueville quote

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. — Alexis de Tocqueville

America quote What if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are al
What if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost always based on lies and promoted by war propaganda in order to serve special interests.

Captain America Quotes

My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics. — Walter Mosley

But if you, as an independent filmmaker or a "serious" filmmaker, think you put more love into your characters than the Russo Brothers do Captain America, or Joss Whedon does the Hulk, or I do a talking raccoon, you are simply mistaken. — James Gunn

Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America. — Peter Fonda

Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine. — Mark Millar

You know, the reward for 'Captain America' is amazing. It's always fun to see a giant spectacle film and see the fun stuff - the special effects. — Chris Evans

I am voice actor Roger Craig Smith. You may know me as Batman, Captain America, Sonic the Hedgehog, Ezio from Assassin's Creed, Transformers: RID, or narrator of “Say Yes To the Dress” (among many other things). AMA! — Roger Craig Smith

I was really sad after 'The Avengers' when I realized I was not going to have a part in 'Thor 2' or 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier.' But I'm not arguing with my fantastic plane and my really cool car. — Clark Gregg

When I first started lifting I wanted to be a Super Hero.. But that was my motivation. I was huge into comics at a very young age and nothing made me feel better than helping people. So I wanted to build muscle to be like Superman, Captain America, Wolverine, etc. — Scott Herman

I'm a big supporter of Joe Johnston and I think that 'Captain America' is going to be really fun and I gather that the story is really interesting. It just wasn't what I wanted to do next, to be honest. — Emily Blunt

Casting Captain America is really casting two roles... Steve Rogers before and after the transformation from 98 pound weakling to perfect physical specimen. I can't divulge how we're going to do it, but the performance will be Chris Evans from beginning to end. — Joe Johnston

Team America Quotes

Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team. — Bum Phillips

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams. — Jacques Barzun

How do you pledge allegiance to a government? That's all America is: a government. There's no such thing as 'we're Americans.' That's just trivial bullshit to get you rooting for the home team. You're not an American. You're a guy, you're a person, you're an individual. — Doug Stanhope

In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team. — Luis Suarez

American working men are principals in the three-member team of capital, management, labor. Never have they regarded themselves as a servile class that could attain freedom only through destruction of the industrial economy. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

We play by the rules, we play hard and we prepare hard. The work ethic of our team and preparation is like no other in my opinion and we try to make our fans in America proud. — Robert Kraft

Indians in America are yet to be considered human beings, even though the Pope issued a papal bull in 1898 that declared us to be human beings. But to show you the institutional racism, the sports teams are still using the Indians as mascots. — Russell Means

Team America must have been the biggest pain in the ass. And if we want to talk well-organized, they got Bill Pope, who is the DP on The Matrix, because he was just like, "I want to do something less serious." — Neal Brennan

And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it. — Matt Stone

The contracts are structured different than athletes in America, but for me, it was good to move on and go back to playing in the premiere league, which is the best league. It was disappointing, as far as the team goes, but for me, there wasn't much I could do. — Claudio Reyna

God Bless America Quotes

God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her through the night with a light from above. — Irving Berlin

Now look at the crowd. We’ve got everybody here tonight: Black, white, Asian, Latinos—and guess what? President Obama says we can all stay! God Bless America! — Pitbull

No, no, no, not God bless America — God damn America! — Jeremiah Wright

God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme. — The Rev

God bless the America we are trying to create. — Hillary Clinton

God bless America, land that I love, Stand beside her, and guide her, Through the night, with the light from above, From the mountains, to the prairies To the oceans, white with foam God bless America, my home sweet home, God bless America! My Home Sweet Home! — Irving Berlin

One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple, by the Relief Office, I saw my people - As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if God blessed America for me. — Woody Guthrie

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! — Thomas Jefferson

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America. — Linda Lavin

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity — John Adams

Inspiring America Quotes

If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys. — Chief Dan George

Where no one intrudes, many can live in harmony. - Chief Dan George

Where no one intrudes, many can live in harmony. — Chief Dan George

How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right. — Black Hawk

Of the people, by the people, for the people. — Sun Yat-sen

At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture. — Vance Havner

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias. - William Allen White

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias. — William Allen White

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man. — Pat Paulsen

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles. — Black Elk

He has made us the master organizers of the world . . . to overwhelm the forces of reaction throught the earth . . . . This is the divine mission of America . . . . We are trustees of the world's progress, guardians of its righteous peace. [Progressive] — Albert J. Beveridge

In today's America He (Jesus) has moved from the central figure of world history to source material for late-night comics and pundits who would not dare treat other religious leaders with such disrespect. — David Jeremiah

America Freedom Quotes

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. — Abraham Lincoln

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin. — Samuel Adams

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. — Hermann Goring

White people’s number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are other than white. We don’t have to learn about those who are other than white. And our number two freedom is the freedom to deny that we’re ignorant. — Jane Elliott

Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience. — John Locke

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. — Samuel Adams

Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for, with God's grace, I shall come and bring with me countless millions of black slaves who have died in America and the West Indies and the millions in Africa to aid you in the fight for Liberty, Freedom and Life. — Marcus Garvey

American style is about confidence, independence, diversity and free expression. — Tommy Hilfiger

America you are beautiful . . . and blessed . . . . The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being, but especially the weakest and most defenseless. If you want equal justice for all and true freedom and lasting peace, then America, defend life. — Pope John Paul II

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights. — Benjamin Rush

United States Of America Quotes

When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism — Sinclair Lewis

The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty. — Simon Bolivar

The United States of America is a nation where people are not united because of those three glaring frailties: racism, injustices and inequities. — Yuri Kochiyama

If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them... 'Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in,' I would have done it. — Dianne Feinstein

The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands. — Seth Low

The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims. — John Adams

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers. — Nelson Mandela

My grandma always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and neither was anyone else I knew. — James David Vance

We're talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it's very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States. — Alberto Gonzales

With this announcement today, the Army has made it clear what we have known all along - that Fort Riley is truly the crown jewel of the United States Army. — Jim Ryun

Black America Quotes

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander. — Mary Mcleod Bethune

America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt. — Malcolm X

The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman. — Malcolm X

America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet. — Dick Gregory

A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction. — Bobby Seale

Discrimination is discrimination no matter who the victim is, and it is always wrong. There are no special rights in America, despite the attempts by many to divide blacks and the gay community with the argument that the latter are seeking some imaginary special rights at the expense of blacks. — Julian Bond

Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise. — Sayyid Qutb

I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the black people to be violent. We will use that violence to rid ourselves of oppression if necessary. We will be free, by any means necessary. — H. Rap Brown

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me. — Muhammad Ali

America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants. — Jose Antonio Vargas

Only In America Quotes

In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going. — Condoleezza Rice

Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself 'Pro-Life.' — John Fugelsang

...Poverty in America today leads not only to anxiety, unhappiness, discomfort and a lack of material goods. It leads to death. Poverty in America today is a death sentence for tens and tens of thousands of our people. — Bernie Sanders

The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails. — Federico Garcia Lorca

When church is over and there's no one there to listen except the only One who matters, do you still have that same passionate joy in your spirit, just to be alone with the Living God? — Keith Green

Only in America can you find so many angry people claiming to love their country, while hating almost anyone in it. — Don King

Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life. — Sadhu Sundar Singh

America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well ... all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky starts we don't live in Paraguay! — Matt Groening

Only in america will you see people circling the parking lot looking for a close space at a gym. — Don King

The United States is the only country with a known birthday. — James G. Blaine

Coming To America Quotes

I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me! — Richard Pryor

Let no man of us budge one step, and let slaveholders come to beat us from our country. America is more our country, than it is the whites-we have enriched it with our blood and tears. The greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears. — David Walker

I love my country. I love my guns. I love my family. I love the way it is now, and anybody that tries to change it has to come through me. That should be all of our attitudes. Cause this is America, and a country boy is good enough for me, son. — Charlie Daniels

When Fascism comes to America, it will be called anti-Fascism! — Unknown Author

Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America. — Joe Baca

I go to Chinese Christian community. Jesus looks Chinese. I go to Japanese Christian community. Jesus looks Japanese. I go to Brazilian Christian community. Jesus looks Brazilian. How come in America Jesus looks white? — Dick Gregory

We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world. — Siobhan Davies

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security. — Jim Garrison

God is looking for broken men who have judged themselves in the light of the cross of Christ. When He wants anything done, He takes up men who have come to the end of themselves, whose confidence is not in themselves, but in God. — Henry Allen Ironside

The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him for the healing of America - our country is in need of and ready for a spiritual renewal. — Ronald Reagan

Rights In America Quotes

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America. — Jimmy Carter

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution. — James Meredith

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. — Clarence Thomas

The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms. — Samuel Adams

America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. — Mother Teresa

We’re making new investments in the development of gasoline and diesel and jet fuel that’s actually made from a plant-like substance-algae... We could replace up to 17 percent of the oil we import for transportation with this fuel that we can grow right here in the United States. — Barack Obama

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now. — Merle Haggard

All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers. — Bobby Seale

I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice. — John F. Kennedy

The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights — Hubert H. Humphrey

Founding America Quotes

Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the most basic, expression of Americanism. Thus, the founding fathers of America saw it, and thus with God's help, it will continue to be. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals. — Douglas Sirk

You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I've been trying to change it ever since. — Upton Sinclair

The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation. — Pat Robertson

Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos. — John Marshall

Without Virtue there can be no liberty - Benjamin Rush

Without Virtue there can be no liberty — Benjamin Rush

CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it. — Jay Leno

[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government. — Patrick Henry

Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ. — James Madison

America was born a Christian nation. — Woodrow Wilson

America Today Quotes

From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way. — N. T. Wright

America today is running on the momentum of a godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help America. — Omar N. Bradley

The great issues facing us today are not Republican issues or Democratic issues. The political parties can debate the means, but both parties must embrace the end objective, which is to make America great again. — Lee Iacocca

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong. — Ronald Reagan

People read newspapers far more than they read the Word of God and then we wonder way America is in the mess she's in today. This is the Book that made America great, but since it's been kicked out, we've seen America go under and down. — Lester Roloff

Power in America today is control of the means of communication. - Theodore White

Power in America today is control of the means of communication. — Theodore White

The black people's struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. Today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of Africa, has made it in the United States of America. — Muammar al-Gaddafi

WHAT WE NEED IN AMERICA TODAY IS A VIGOROUS RETURN TO THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS AND A MOST VIGOROUS DEFENSE AGAINST THE MINION OF GODLESSNESS AND ATHEISM. — J. Edgar Hoover

There will be over 3,500 killed in USA today from abortion. No flags lowered, no presidents crying. No media hyperventilating. Normal day. — Matt Drudge

America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols. — Bill Shuster

America Land Quotes

I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong. — George Washington

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. — Stephen Hawking

The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell on their knees; then they fell upon the aborigines. — American Proverbs

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds. — Ernest Hemingway

The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies. — Mary Brave Bird

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life. — George W. Bush

We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us. — Malcolm X

America was founded by the refuse of the religious fanatics of England, these undesirable elements that came over on the Mayflower. Ignorant, religious fanatics who land here and abuse the Indians. — Frank Zappa

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops. — Paul Brooks

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again! — Langston Hughes

Modern America Quotes

Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium. — Sigurd F. Olson

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s. — Peter Lewis Allen

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all. — Clive James

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. — George Bernard Shaw

Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel of cider. ("Hard" cider is a twentieth-century term, redundant before then since virtually all cider was hard until modern refrigeration allowed people to keep sweet cider sweet.) — Michael Pollan

In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses. — Calvin Trillin

Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern age. — George F. Kennan

Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America. — Martha Graham

Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes. — V. S. Naipaul

I explain how America hatred and Jew hatred are [INDEMIC] to Modern Liberalism and delve deeper into why it is the otherwise good and decent people will INVARIABLY side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success. — Evan Sayet

America Singer Quotes

America Singer, one day you will fall asleep in my arms every night. And you'll wake up to my kisses every morning. — Kiera Cass

I hit your thigh!” “Oh, please. A man doesn’t need that long to recover from a knee to the thigh. — Kiera Cass

Oh, yes. She’s still here,” Maxon said, not letting his eyes wander from Gavril’s face. “And I plan on keeping her here for quite a while. — Kiera Cass

He gave a dark chuckle. “But you’re not, so you had absolutely no qualms about kneeing me in the groin, right?” “I hit your thigh!” “Oh, please. A man doesn’t need that long to recover from a knee to the thigh,” he replied, his voice full of skepticism. — Kiera Cass

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it. — Helen Reddy

America? They had a good girl singer, Janis Joplin. — Maurice Gibb

Obviously there are a lot of 12-year-olds over in America who are incredible singers. — Shayne Ward

My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream? — Katherine Jenkins

Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff. — Pete Best

America Singer, you get back here." He ran in front of me, wrapping an arm around my waist as we stood, chest to chest. "Tell me," he whispered. I pinched my lips together. "Fine, then I shall have to rely on other means of communication." Without any warning, he kissed me. — Kiera Cass

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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. — Al Capone

Hillary Clinton has shown no indication whatsoever of stemming the tide of Islamic immigration, or stopping our mollycoddling, and pandering to Islam. These things are direct threats. Not just to culture, but to the lives of gay people in America. — Milo Yiannopoulos

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. — Harry S Truman

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country. — Dick Gregory

That's the one issue can't discuss.You can discuss abortion back and forth, discuss gun control back and forth. But you can't have a dissenting opinion in America (politics) on Israel. — David Duke

We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am at that place within me, we shall be one. — Crazy Horse

If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife. — Malcolm X

The majority of Western culture came out of Europe, which is not comparable to America. It came out of nation states based on geographical and ethnic foundations. America is based on principles, a very different kind of country. — Milo Yiannopoulos

We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not to give up Iraq. We say this so no one will think that America is capable of breaking the will of the Iraqis with its weapons. — Saddam Hussein

I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism -- Our firm conviction is that sooner or later Capitalism will give way to Socialism. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you. — Nikita Khrushchev

All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world are Africans and belong to the African nation. — Kwame Nkrumah

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