Americans Quotes

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

By sitting down, she was standing up for all Americans.

Only Americans can hurt America.

We [African-Americans] had to have laws enacted to allow us to vote. The right to vote is precious. It didn't come easy.

Despite good intentions and best efforts, the stereotyping of Native Americans into narrow images is an undeniable consequence of choosing such names and symbols.

We Americans, we're a simple people . . . but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities.

Rosa Parks served as an inspiration to generations of African-Americans and all people of good will. More than an icon, Mrs. Parks is symbolic of the thousands of courageous NAACP workers who fight for civil rights in their communities.

Americans have forgotten how to food-shop. When we don't plan, we buy the wrong things, which causes us to spend more money and more time.

Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic levels. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.

Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

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.

The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.