American Quotes

A great wave of oppressive tyranny isn't going to strike, but rather a slow seepage of oppressive laws and regulations from within will sink the American dream of liberty. George Baumler Quotes.

As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major problem.

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.

Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.

To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields.

We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.

Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

I let the American people down.

I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.

Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

Loving ourselves is a revolutionary act!

The next time you get scared, get sacred!

Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.

I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.

I always, always got to be the last man standing.

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.

Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

While you’re alive there’s no time for minor amazements.

What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.

The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game.

Obama has now lost his trustworthiness. He has lost any hope of majority support from the American people for his agenda. Obamacare has wiped that out. It really has.

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

I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.

I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.

The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.

There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.

The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.

One of my favourite kinds of movie is the American picaresque, in which the characters make their way across the country, learning about life against the gorgeous backdrops of that vast land.

Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don't think that's extraordinary. I'm a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy.

Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.

I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it.

It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.

I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.