America Quotes, Sayings about USA - Page 3
Behind every material goal there is a personal reason.
If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot.
- John A. Dix
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
- George Bernard Shaw
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
- Gertrude Stein
An American is a man with two arms and four wheels.
America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.
- James Michener
America is a young country with an old mentality.
- George Santayana
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
- Woodrow Wilson
What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.
- Barbara Jordan
America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
- Bobcat Goldthwait
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Only in America…
Can a pizza get to your house faster that an ambulance
Are there handicap parking spots in front of a skating rink
That drug stores make the sick walk to the back of store to get a prescription&the healthy can buy cigarettes at the front
Do banks leave both doors open but chain their pens to the counters
…Only in America
If the country is good enough to live in, it’s good enough to fight for.
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
- Will Rogers
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.
- Winston Churchill
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
- Laurence J. Peter
Being American is about wearing Italian suits and driving a German car to an Arabian store for a German beer, then traveling home, grabbing some Mexican food on the way, to sit on Chinese made furniture and watch British shows on a Japanese TV.
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn’t have declared their independence from it.
- Stephen Colbert
I want my country to love me as much as I love it
John James Rambo