American Quotes
The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.
If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.
I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others.
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.
The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.
It is the mothers not the warriors who create a people and guide their destiny.
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.
I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner.
When we become hollow bones there is no limit to what the Higher Powers can do in and through us in spiritual things.
You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.
The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.
If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse.
Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.
Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
Stop using the word 'Negro.' The word is a misnomer from every point of view. It does not represent a country or anything else ... I am an African-American.
There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a decade before the civil war began.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles.
We need to give everybody a chance, treat everybody with respect, and let them share in this great American dream that we have.
I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.
So such an American troops presence in Korea in the South and Japan, total some 100,000 should stay there forever, even after unification of Korean peninsula.
True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.
There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.
I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had.
General Otis is proclaimed American Military Governor of the Philippines and I protest a thousand times and with all the force in my soul against such pretension.
Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every part of my mind. And with long searching and hard work, I became devoted to my restlessness.
Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they're so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.
I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them down.
High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.