America quotes

• Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies. (Woody Allen) [crime/america/office]
• The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life. (Theodore Roosevelt) [willpower/destroy/america/price]
• All great change in America begins at the dinner table. (Ronald Reagan) [change/america]
• We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all of mankind. (Franklin Roosevelt) [life/america/mankind]
• If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. (Henry James) [life/america/land]
• Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact. (Marlene Dietrich) [sex/america]
• Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States. (John Adams) [/question/america/willpower]
• 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/wonder/design/emancipation]
• Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one consider that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies. (Woody Allen) [crime/america/office]
• 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) [america/dollar]
• If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World. (Jean Baudrillard) [america/naive/enthusiasm]
• What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world. (Jean Baudrillard) [america/america/basis]
• America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got. (Charlotte Bunch) [america/love/promises/more]
• Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners. (Edmund Burke) [america/day/more/men]
• A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. (Samuel Butler) [genius/time/america/life]
• America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America. (Jimmy Carter) [america/human/human/america]
• The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous. (Barbara Cartland) [people/america/amount]
• It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes. (Alistair Cooke) [america]
• Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact. (Marlene Dietrich) [sex/america]
• It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. (Isadora Duncan) [america]
• The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad. (Umberto Eco) [america/profit]
• We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [willpower/america//]
• In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [america/men]
• Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery. (Betty Friedan) [bliss/sex/america]
• It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore. (Margaret Fuller) [follow/books/america/literature]
• 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) [america/philosophy/land/stage]
• There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women want and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic. (Germaine Greer) [america/men/women/housing]
• Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America. (Lillian Hellman) [america]
• It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it. (Eric Hoffer) [america/america/needs/love]
• The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [america/destruction/destruction/human]
• If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. (Henry James) [life/america/land]

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