America Quotes - Page 5

• Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner, unless you eat some of what’s on that plate. Being here in America doesn’t make you an American. Being born here in America doesn’t make you an American.

  Malcolm X

  History, Sitting, Diners

  "The Ballot or the Bullet". Malcolm X's Speech at Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, teachingamericanhistory.org. April 3, 1964.

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• America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Country, Usa, Printed Word

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• America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Funny, Country, Humor

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• I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Jesus, Humorous

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the field of battle.

  James A. Baldwin

  Society, Battle, Heroism

  "Notes of a Native Son". Book by James Baldwin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 1955.

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• America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

  Gertrude Stein

  Country, Paris, Hometown

  "An American and France" (1936)

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• Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Art, World, Firsts

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

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• America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

  George W. Bush

  Gun, Clouds, Mushrooms

  Address to the Nation on the Threat of Iraq, delivered 7 October 2002, Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio

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• I will never relent in defending America - whatever it takes.

  George W. Bush

  Whatever It Takes, Defending America

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 2 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.

  Billy Crystal

  Funny, Humorous, Oscars

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• In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Sex, Women, Memorable

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

  Thomas Merton

  College, Looks, October

  Thomas Merton (1974). “A Thomas Merton Reader”, Image

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• The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

  Walter Lippmann

  Travel, Adventure, Usa

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

  Sigmund Freud

  Failure, World, Failing

  "Freud: the Man and his Cause". Book by Ronald W. Clark, 1980.

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• I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.

  Lord Byron

  Funny, Military, Humorous

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• America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

  John Barrymore

  Funny, Country, Humorous

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• Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.

  Steven Spielberg

  Taken, Kids, Media

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• Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.

  James Madison

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Race

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.64

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• The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless monologue that has the slightly metallic sound of a gramophone.

  Vance Palmer

  Optimistic, Voice, Sound

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• America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Grateful, Brave

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• In recent years, we've become enamored with our own past success. Lulled into complacency by the glitter of our own achievements. We've become accustomed to the title of Military Superpower, forgetting the qualities that got us there. We've become accustomed to our economic dominance in the world, forgetting that it wasn't reckless deals and get rich quick schemes that got us where we are, but hard work and smart ideas, quality products and wise investments.

  Barack Obama

  Wise, Military, Smart

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• It's like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of s-- is that, but white people's s--?

  Miles Davis

  Discovery, White, People

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.406, Simon and Schuster

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• The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.

  Robertson Davies

  Dark, People, United States

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• We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.

  Chief Seattle

  Brother, Moving, Night

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the times on their own terms. They weren't doing it for the money. Their titles weren't fancy. But they changed the course of history and so can you.

  Barack Obama

  Passion, People, Titles

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