The American Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about The American

The American Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational The American quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want. — Harry Browne

What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world's ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin? — Frederick Douglass

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people. — Jacques Maritain

I dare say being a receptionist at the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square gets you a reasonable salary and all the nylon stockings you can eat, — Hugh Laurie

The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics. — Theodore Roosevelt

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law. — Abbie Hoffman

I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world. — Alexander Payne

I feel like I am not an American in the eyes of my government because of their religious beliefs. I think that is un-American. — Michael Newdow

The American police had shot another child for being black and outside, and the child had died, there on the pavement in the company of his killers. — Sarah Moss

I have lived the American dream, and that is the dream I want for our children and all children everywhere. — Mike Medavoy

As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough. — Karine Vanasse

The American public is sick and tired of being lied to. — Patrick Leahy

I am especially proud of taking on issues most central to the health of our American democracy. — Chellie Pingree

As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed. — Glenn Reynolds

I think the American public wants to see a change. They want a fresh start. — Jason Chaffetz

The American idea that everyone graduates high school at 18 is a good one. — David Miliband

As journalist, I'm responsible to the American people, not to the military of the United States. — Amy Goodman

Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception. — Liam Neeson

Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress. — P. J. O'Rourke

I constantly signal to the Iraqi leaders that our patience, or the patience of the American people, is running out — Zalmay Khalilzad

The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter. — Emma Goldman

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. — F Scott Fitzgerald

You need mentors, people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American in a big way. — Cynthia Carroll

YOUR WORDS ARE MADE OF THE AIR I BREATHE. — Amy King

I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

A free American girl can accommodate herself to circumstances without the aid of a man. -Nellie Bly — Matthew Goodman

When the Russian kettlebell meets an American steak, it is a beautiful thing. — Pavel Tsatsouline

The pumpkin is a uniquely American plant, widely regarded as one of the most magical plants in all the world. — Seth Adam Smith

If we invest in the American people, the American people always bring this Nation a good return. — Blanche Lincoln

The American Civil Liberties Union, has helped neutralize the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of our legal system by seeking new legal precedents. — Bill Bright

The new American Dream is about having an interesting life, not making a lot of money. — Penelope Trunk

Get government out of our way, and let freedom and the spirit of the American people shine through. — Luis Fortuno

Peace of mind is the meaning of life" -Talisa Santiago (Spirit Seeker) — Jamie-Leigh Haden

We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry? — Alexandra Paul

Clean air, clean water, open spaces - these should once again be the birthright of every American. — Richard M. Nixon

Being the only Asian-American in the State Legislature, I've had no choice but to reach across the aisle. — Grace Meng

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop. — Michael Caine

The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans. — Bill Hicks

The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement. — Chris Cannon

Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union. — James Madison

Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type. — Mark Twain

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century. — Henry R. Luce

A common American error is to believe that freedom is the absence of state authority. — Timothy Snyder

The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power. — Michael Mandelbaum

I'm optimistic about the country; I'm optimistic about the American people. — Howard Schultz

There is a tendency of the American people to give those who are elected an opportunity to carry out their policies and programs. — John Dingell

What the American worker needs is more of what WalMart offers and less of what the government offers. — Llewellyn Rockwell

When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was. — Daniel J. Boorstin

The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American. — Gerald Vizenor

My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can. — Uzo Aduba

American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders. — Barack Obama

I think the behavior of the troops has been a huge factor in the rise of the insurgency and in the rise of the anti-American feelings there[in Iraq]. — Yaroslav Trofimov

The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard. — Samuel George Morton

The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took. — Alice S. Rossi

I think the American people in many cases want to transform our energy system. — Bernie Sanders

Saudi Arabia supplies much oil to the U.S. And it is the world's largest consumer of American weaponry. — Stephen Kinzer

Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American. — Jackie Speier

Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list. — Robbie Robertson

Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character. — Aasif Mandvi

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact. — J. William Fulbright

I've always been a big fan of the American soul sound. — Jose Carreras

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep. — Queen Elizabeth II

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets. — Sarah Vowell

I believe in prayer. It's the best ... — Josephine Baker

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle. — Cormac McCarthy

The American dream is dead for the majority of America. — Suze Orman

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism. — Ben Nicholson

The judges say, make it your own, so I just remixed a song if I felt like the piece needed it — Blake Lewis

I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was. — Callan McAuliffe

Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progressivism. — A.E. Samaan

The love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins. — Jimmy Carter

I guess the biggest surprise I got going to Iran was that the Iranians really liked me as an American. — Elaine Sciolino

I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream. — Camille Paglia

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution. — William E. Gladstone

We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic. — Michele Bachmann

The man mistook American patience and attempts at diplomacy for weakness. — Joseph Badal

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education. — Paul Erdos

As a student of American culture, I am willing to argue that the Twist is a valid manifestation of the Age of Anxiety. — Marshall Fishwick

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. — Helmut Jahn

Emphasis on "American made products"
will help us if the currency falls. — Phil Mitchell

We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds. — Abraham Verghese

We have reached in this country an amazing degree of general prosperity, with American business on the whole no longer facing an uphill climb. — Charles M. Schwab

Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child. — Craig Ferguson

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom. — Jeff Sharlet

When I was growing up in school, I wasn't the archetype of the classic American nerd; I was just different. — Andy Biersack

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag. — Adrian Cronauer

The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.
- pg. 41 — William S. Burroughs

I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag. — Abraham Lincoln

If New Mexican voters believe the path to create American jobs is keeping taxes low, then they have an option. That's my campaign. — Heather Wilson

The 100% American is 99% idiot. — George Bernard Shaw

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes. — Hugh Sidey

I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism, around the world and here as well. — Tom Brokaw

Bullshit is truly the American soundtrack. — George Carlin

College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families. — Barbara Mikulski

I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people. — Rand Paul

The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families. — Robert Wuthnow

I believe that the American audience is not so dumb that they wouldn't be interested in a black story. — Euzhan Palcy

Every part of the earth is sacred to my people. — Chief Seattle

The American Cancer Society has done the American public a really great disservice. — David Baltimore

I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American people. — Frank Lautenberg