American Way Of Life Quotes

• War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington - not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Stupid, Men

  Graduation Exercises at the United States Military Academy, www.dwightdeisenhower.com. June 03, 1947.

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• The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.

  Arundhati Roy

  America, World, Way

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• The whole world is being 'deculturalized' into a uniform 'Coca-Cola society,' wanting and needing an American way of life.

  Helen Caldicott

  United States, Culture, World

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• If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Children, Failure, Teaching

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• Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Government, Way, Form

  From remarks recorded for the "Back to God" Program of the American Legion, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. February 20, 1955.

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• It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.

  Prescott Bush

  Believe, Winning, Patriotism

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• The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless.

  Lydia Lunch

  Powerful, Greed, Desire

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• The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Way, Serious, Danger

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight. We are seen, worldwide, as an enormously competitive, enthusiastic people who work as hard as we play and play as hard as we work. When baseball - which has traditionally canceled one day of games for huge national celebrations or disasters - stops play for six days, that has reverberations in the national consciousness.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Baseball, Hockey

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• He struck a mighty blow for equality, freedom and the American way of life. Jackie Robinson was a good citizen, a great man, and a true American champion.

  Ronald Reagan

  Blow, Men, Champion

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we've given them the chance to get rid of this dogma, I have to tell you Americans that you've been pushing your American way of life for decades. You thought it was perfection itself, the ultimate achievement of human thought... There has to be a different approach... Americans have to be more modest in their desires. We have to stimulate human qualities in people rather than greed.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Perfection, People, Greed

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• In short, there are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not on falsehood; on justice, not on injustice; on public tranquility, not on violence; on freedom, not on enslavement.

  Edmund Ezra Day

  Wise, Truth, Honesty

  "Education for Freedom and Responsibility: Selected Essays".

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• I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

  Ron Paul

  Peace, Government, Giving

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• Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.

  Dorothy Day

  Party, Political, Trying

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• The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the American Way of Life is a fossil of history. What do they care if their old baldheaded and crew-cut elders don't dig their caveman mops? They couldn't care less about the old, stiff-assed honkies who don't like their new dances: Frog, Monkey, Jerk, Swim, Watusi. All they know is that it feels good to swing to way-out body-rhythms instead of dragging across the dance floor like zombies to the dead beat of mind-smothered Mickey Mouse music.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Life, Cutting, Swings

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• Let the rabbit of free enterprise out of its velveteen bag and too many people would have to be fired, too much idiocy exposed to the light of judgment or ridicule, too much vanity sacrificed to the fires of efficiency. Such a catastrophe obviously would threaten the American way of life, to say nothing of the belief in free markets.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Light, Fire, Vanity

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• All cultures forged by nations—the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and the ancestral wealth of Africa and Oceania—are corroded by the American way of life. In this way, neoliberalism imposes the destruction of nations and groups of nations in order to reconstruct them according to a single model. This is a planetary war, of the worst and cruelest kind, waged against humanity.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Wise, War, Past

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• I was looking, a piece in the "L.A. Times" about a paper called "The Menace" back in 1915, that was railing against Catholics and it said all sorts of things about them. They are essentially a fifth column. They are crypto fascists, that they said if we were compelled to live in this term with Romanists, that`s their term of Catholics, the Romanists will have to be taught their place in. Was that bigotry or were they correct back then to look at Catholicism as fundamentally alien and threatening to the American way of life?

  Chris Hayes

  Catholic, Looks, Pieces

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• People must learn that the accumulation of wealth by the successful
  conduct of business is the corollary of the improvement of their own standard of
  living and vice versa. They must realize that bigness in business is not an evil, but both the cause and effect of the fact that they themselves enjoy all those amenities
  whose enjoyment is called the “American way of life.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Successful, People, Evil

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. Even what they eat and drink, these palefaces who don't know what wine istheir uglinesstheir pink sausage skin, horrible, they only live because there is penicillin,... the world as an Americanized vacuumtheir fake health, their fake youthfulnessthe way they use cosmetics even on corpses, their whole pornographic attitude to death.

  Max Frisch

  Death, Attitude, Wine

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• And the word is capitalism. We are too mealy-mouthed. We fear the word capitalism is unpopular. So we talk about the free enterprise system and run to cover in the folds of the flag and talk about the American Way of Life.

  Eric Johnston

  Running, Flags, Way

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• To all organic conceptions of life Americans oppose a mechanistic conception. In a society which has 'started from scratch', everything has the characteristic of being fabricated. In American society appearances are masks, not faces. At the same time, proponents of the American way of life are hostile to personality.

  Julius Evola

  Personality, Scratches, Way

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• Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

  Herbert Hoover

  Baseball, Impact, Presidential

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• I love the American way of life.

  Juan Pablo Montoya

  Way

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• Without God, there would be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Government, Would Be, Way

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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