Quotes About America

In America there are two classes of travel—first-class, and with children.

Americans were no more shallow than any other people, just more pampered, so they had come to treasure their shallowness, making pop singers and television actors their most revered leaders. Pampered but lovable. He loved America, even though he held it in contempt. Love and contempt were not incompatible. In fact, one was rarely found without the other.

It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject.

the MO Operation presented a golden opportunity, the chance to catch half of America's carrier strength with all of Japan's.

Ted Bundy, arguably America's most notorious serial killer, then on death row in Florida, offered to assist Bob Keppel in catching the killer.

People around the world must know that America stands on the side of liberty and human dignity, despite whatever compromises we make to protect our interests. If we abandon that role, we will lose that which makes us historically unique. We will lose some piece of our national soul.

Land was wealth 300 years ago. So the person who owned the land owned the wealth. Then, it was factories and production, and America rose to dominance. The industrialist owned the wealth. Today, it is information. And the person who has the most timely information owns the wealth.

Social welfare is destroying the soul of America. Social programs are cancers growing within the spirit of the people they were created to serve. Social programs do not make people stronger. They keep people weak, depending on the government to solve their problems.

History proves that great civilizations collapse when the gap between the haves and have-nots is too great. Sadly, America is on that same course because we haven't learned from history. We only memorize historical dates and names, not the lesson." "Aren't prices supposed to go up?

America was founded out of tax protest. Have they forgotten the famous Boston Tea Party of 1773?

In America, one of the advantages of investing in real estate over paper assets is this legal loophole in the tax code.

Land was wealth 300 years ago. So the person who owned the land owned the wealth. Later, wealth was in factories and production, and America rose to dominance. The industrialist owned the wealth. Today, wealth is in information. And the person who has the most timely information owns the wealth.

We came to America to colonize the place for ourselves. That means spreading seed. Equal opportunity for fucking. You know what's the biggest disappointment of my life? Seeing my oldest son pussy-whipped by one white woman.

All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream. —T. K. Whipple, Study Out the Land

All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream.

Even more basic to McCarthy's success, the president never challenged the senator's meat-and-potatoes premises: that merely believing in communism was dangerous, and that Soviet subversion threatened the stability and safety of America.

It's good to get away from Washington and back here in the United States.

Popcorn is American. Nobody but the Indians ever had popcorn, till after the Pilgrim Fathers came to America. On

It was farmers that took all that land and made it America...It was farmers that went over the mountains, and cleared the land, and settled it, and farmed it, and hung onto their land.

I still play in corporate America. I protect the suits that want flashy muscle. Something exotic to impress their friends about what a big shot they are. You do the knife act on command? I asked. He shrugged. Sometimes. I hope it pays well, I said. He smiled. It either pays well or I don't do it. I may be their token Indian but I'm a rich token Indian.

Whether vampires should have been declared 'alive' and full citizens of the United States of America was one of the big debates ranking right up there with gun rights and abortion. In a way all of them are about life and death—defining what life is, and what it isn't, and how far we'll go to protect, or take, it.

I laid down one long road of a sentence in my remembery: "For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have a right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others for ever." Way I saw it, Mr. Paine was saying all people were the same, that no one deserved a crown or was born to be higher than another. That's why America could make its own freedom.

Until America, door to door, takes every handgun, this is what you're gonna have. It's pathetic. It really is pathetic. It's sad. We're living in the Dark Ages over there.

Most people in America don't believe that "God" is a dirty word, but the sad fact is that some Americans are left to wonder whether the Supreme Court might have greater regard for it if it was.