Motivational Quotes

America

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.

- Palmer, Vance

Best Quotes about 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.

Eco, Umberto

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

Laurence J. Peter

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Oscar Wilde

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 W. Hegel

The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.

Chandler, Raymond

The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the problems that will confront the world tomorrow.

Butler, Nicholas

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

Sigmund Freud

American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.

Iyer, Pico

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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

Reagan, Ronald

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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

Franklin, Benjamin

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America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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Americans usually believe that nothing is impossible.

Eagleburger, Lawrence S.

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Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.

Rivers, Joan

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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

Baudrillard, Jean

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I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

Miller, Henry

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The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.

Macleish, Archibald

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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

Wilde, Oscar

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America is a willingness of the heart.

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The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.

Coolidge, Calvin

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American is a very difficult language mixed with English.

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Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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America and its demons, Europe and its ghost.

Le Monde

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America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.

Bunch, Charlotte

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There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

Judith Martin

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America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.

Barack Obama

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The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

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As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Only Americans can hurt America.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.

Starr, Ringo

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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.

Auden, W. H.

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The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

Bloom, Allan

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All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Ronald Reagan

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By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.

George W. Bush

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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.

Henry Ford II

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Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach.

Navratilova, Martina

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I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.

Bobcat Goldthwaite

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The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.

Mccarthy, Mary

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There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

Bill Clinton

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America is just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

Thompson, Hunter S.

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On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment -- half- time.

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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

Mark Twain

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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 battle field.

Baldwin, James

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To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.

Thomas, Norman

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The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.

Charles Luckman

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America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.

George W. Bush

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The American people abhor a vacuum.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Gertrude Stein