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America Quotes

America or United states of America is hailed as ‘ the land of the free and home of the brave’. It is the super power nation in the world and it has a say in the routine politics of each and every other nations on the globe. There is a saying that goes ‘When America sneezes the whole world catches cold?’. From this single saying, you can get to know the importance of the nation in global scenario. Read on the quotes on America to get to know more about the nation.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

Osama bin Laden

We love death. The U.S. loves life. That is the difference between us two.

Malcolm X

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

Gertrude Stein

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

Alexis de Tocqueville

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Robert Kennedy

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

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Jon Stewart

Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.

Osama bin Laden

I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.

James Baldwin

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

Osama bin Laden

We did not find it difficult to deal with Bush and his administration, because it is similar to regimes in our countries - both types include many who are full of arrogance and greed.

Osama bin Laden

I heard about the bombings the same way everyone else heard about them, from the television or radio. I did not order them but was very glad for what happened to the Americans there.

I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.

Hillary Clinton

We are a country where people of all backgrounds, all nations of origin, all languages, all religions, all races, can make a home. America was built by immigrants.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too.

Calvin Coolidge

The business of America is business.

Theodore Roosevelt

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

Pamela Anderson

I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work.

Leon Trotsky

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

Nicole Kidman

You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV.

Steve King

We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.

Don DeLillo

America was and is the immigrant's dream.

Laurence J. Peter

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

Frederick Douglass

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

Walter Winchell

Good evening Mr and Mrs America, from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press.

Marvin Olasky

That should be our test regarding immigrants. Those who come to America to tear it down or live off of others should not be welcomed.

Andy Warhol

Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.

Alexis de Tocqueville

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Jimmy Carter

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

Alexis de Tocqueville

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

Thomas Merton

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.

This bill, this badly named ENLIST Act, would put out the advertisement that says, 'Sneak into America. Sneak into the military, and that's going to be the most expeditious path to American citizenship and the whole smorgasbord of benefits that come from American citizenship.'

George Bernard Shaw

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

Jean Baudrillard

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.

Carl Sandburg

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Andy Warhol

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

James Madison

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us.

Calvin Coolidge

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Groucho Marx

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.

Steve King

I believe Ted Cruz is the candidate that's the answer to my prayers. A candidate whom God will use to restore the soul of America.

Nelson Mandela

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.

Arthur Ashe

When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

Nora Roberts

I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking.

Bill Bryson

America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.

Henry James

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.

Larry King

Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer.

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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

Woodrow Wilson

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.

Oscar Wilde

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.

Hillary Clinton

I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.

Woodrow Wilson

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

Richard M. Nixon

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

Charlie Chaplin

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

Woodrow Wilson

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

Charlie Chaplin

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

Laurence J. Peter

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

Henry Ford

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

Elton John

If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican.

Tony Blair

When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place.

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Gertrude Stein

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

Walt Disney

Laughter is America's most important export.

W. H. Auden

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Dan Quayle

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

We have this idea in our minds that there's this separation of church and state in America, which I think is a good thing. And we extend that to our politics - not just church and state, but it's also there's a separation of religion and politics. But of course there isn't.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

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George Washington

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

Gloria Steinem

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

Alan Watts

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Elton John

I tour as many countries as possible, and I've toured every state in America, plus every province in Canada.

Elbert Hubbard

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Don DeLillo

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

Gloria Steinem

The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.

Abraham Lincoln

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Billy Joel

I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans.

Tony Blair

This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.

Willie Nelson

America, to me, is freedom.

Robin Williams

In America they really do mythologise people when they die.

Nelson Mandela

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

Reese Witherspoon

My ex-husband is very involved in raising our beautiful children. We're very lucky because we both grew up in working families in middle America. We're on the same page that way.

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Bill Bryson

America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn't for me.

James Baldwin

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

Larry King

The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.

Woodrow Wilson

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

Andy Warhol

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

Stephen King

I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

Robert Kennedy

America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity - the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

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George Harrison

America has everything, why should they want us.

Bill Bryson

I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity.

I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my childhood has had a capital F - it was assumed to be an American Future because America was the future. The Future was assumed to be inherently heroic, and a lot of other things, as well.

George Santayana

America is a young country with an old mentality.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

D. H. Lawrence

Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.

Zig Ziglar

Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.