American Quotes

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

Pro wrestling has always been ingrained into American culture. It was one of the first things that was ever on television, so everybody watched it.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.

Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.

Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.

I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour.

A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

It is our right to stay here and we will stay and stand up for what belongs to us as American citizens, because they can't say that we haven't had patience.

If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.

[Seeing an ornately chained Native American for the first time] What Eden have they torn you from?

Don't let anyone rob you of hope.

The majority of American voters have rejected both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave?

History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life.

The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct.

As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child.

Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?

Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races.

Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

The flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away.

Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.

Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.

Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.

For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.

Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods.

Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing...

We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.