Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. —Edgar Watson Howe More about this quote Tags: truth gossip lies USA Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions. —Patrick Leahy More about this quote Tags: politics opinions USA liberals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both. —Louis D. Brandeis More about this quote Tags: democracy equality inequality USA wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the next voyage of the Mayflower, after she carried the Pilgrims, she was employed in transporting a cargo of slaves from Africa. —Nathaniel Hawthorne More about this quote Tags: history USA slavery irony Mayflower Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
America: a country where everything is done to prove life isn't tragic. —Albert Camus More about this quote Tags: USA tragedy proof Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. —Laurence J. Peter More about this quote Tags: certainty USA direction determination speed Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. —George Will More about this quote Tags: USA football sports violence committees meetings Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. —Doug Larson More about this quote Tags: USA traffic holidays Labor Day Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them. —Lily Tomlin More about this quote Tags: honesty politics cynicism USA hard work elections adults Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. —Peter Ustinov More about this quote Tags: freedom choice USA conformity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him. —Jim Samuels More about this quote Tags: USA cocaine parties Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You may break any written law in America with impunity. There is an unwritten law that you break at your peril. It is: do not attack the profit system. —Mary Heaton Vorse More about this quote Tags: politics law USA capitalism profit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature. —George W. Bush More about this quote Tags: politics doubt USA Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up. —Margaret Halsey More about this quote Tags: ethics USA finance class social mobility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half have never voted for president. One hopes it is the same half. —Gore Vidal More about this quote Tags: education knowledge USA Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email