Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American. —Malcolm X More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This nation was founded by many men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. —John F. Kennedy More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly. —John F. Kennedy More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping? —Jeff Melvoin More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States. —J. Bartlett Brebner More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them. —Henry James More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way. —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses. —George Will More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Americans never quit. —General Douglas Macarthur More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. —Franklin D. Roosevelt More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries? —Edith Wharton More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American. —Daniel Webster More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it. —Alexis de Tocqueville More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email