Quotes About American

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

The typical American flushes the toilet five times a day at home, and uses 18.5 gallons (70 liters) of water, just for that.5

China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.

Shrewd as the British capitalist proverbially is, his judgment in regard to American investments has been singularly fallible.

The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind.

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

Give an American a newspaper and a pie and he will make himself comfortable anywhere.

BUCK: Can you give a definition of an orator? PRIVATE: Sure. He's a fellow that's always ready to lay down your life for his country.

I didn't go to religion to make me happy. I always knew that a bottle of port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend Christianity. I am certain there must be a patent American article on the market which will suit you far better, but I can't give any advice on it.

A braver, finer, more representative, good old American sport I never knew than Charley Miller. He isn't talking about retiring from business and having a good time. He has a good time in his work.

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.

We can't forget what happened on May 4th 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.

What is obvious about this section of the Book of Mormon is that it was borrowed from the KJV and placed in an ancient American context.

From the mid-1970s, Christian organizations would begin to play a more prominent role in international politics, supporting causes associated with America's resurgent nationalist right. Some worked with the American Security Council to oppose disarmament treaties and defend Ian Smith's white government in Rhodesia.

preserving the essence, in fact the breath—when it opened, his museum displayed Thomas Edison's last exhalation, captured by his son in a test tube at Ford's request—of a more durable American experience.

I listened in amazement. You saw a face on an American street, or in an office, and you had no idea that a tragic epic lay behind it.

I wish all the Americans who think 'Muslim' is just another way of saying 'terrorist' could have been there that day. The true core tenants of Islam are justice, tolerance, and charity.

Manifest Destiny, depicted in paintings as an angelic woman in a diaphanous white gown floating serenely, yet watchfully, over the immigrants heading west, was quite a bitch in reality. Anyone not under her wing and not part of the American vision was going to be trampled. Those outside the fold were manifestly destined to be nailed.

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

The oldest American capital is Santa Fe, founded in 1609, over 150 years before the United States was even born and almost 250 before the United States eventually conquered what's now the Southwest from Mexico.

The cowardice that keeps silent in the face of the sufferings of the poor and that offers any number of adroit justifications represents an especially serious failure of Latin American Christians.

If there was no American prison in Iraq, there would be no Islamic State now.