American Quotes

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan

Time, Society, Law

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Money, Until, Public

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Vote, Voting, Themselves

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
Mark Twain

Congress, Except, Class

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
Thomas Jefferson

Mind, Nothing, Principle

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou

Respect, Character, Struggle

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.
Barack Obama

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
Warren Buffett

Money, Hope, Down

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt

Public, Criticism, President

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy

Truth, Judge, Afraid

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.
John F. Kennedy

Hope, Away, Vote

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
Theodore Roosevelt

Politics, Saying, Real

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing, Country, Else

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.
Harry S. Truman

Fear, Mind, Nothing

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Henry David Thoreau

Government, Today, Cannot

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.
Marilyn Monroe

Happy, Child, Expecting

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Here, Pay, Ability

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
Johnny Depp

Great, History, Amazing

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Charles Darwin

Men, Drunk, After

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.
Bill Cosby

Long, Two, Proud

That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Charlie Sheen

Wrong, Stand, Public

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

Book, Literature, Modern

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
O. Henry

And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.
Mitt Romney

Morning, America, Proud

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
Ron Paul

Life, Peace, Best

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.
Hillary Clinton

Liars, Tired, Pretend

And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.
Mitt Romney

Heart, Greatest, America

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken

Public, Nobody, Taste

But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.
Barack Obama

Family, Single, Same

The American people abhor a vacuum.
Theodore Roosevelt

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