Quotes About American

The UN of 1950 was still very much a reflection of American and Western European interests, the only significant dissent coming from the Soviets and their satellites. It was in some ways very much a last vestige of a white man's world.

Thus the portrait of McNamara in those years at his desk, on planes, in Saigon, poring over page after page of data, each platoon, each squad, studying all those statistics. All lies. Talking with reporters and telling them that all the indices were good. He could not have been more wrong; he simply had all the wrong indices, looking for American production indices in an Asian political revolution.

The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.

His closing promise of survival for "government of the people, by the people, for the people" may have had its origin in Daniel Webster's 1830 speech calling the American government "made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people," but more probably he derived it from a sermon of Theodore Parker, to which Herndon had called his attention, defining democracy as "a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people.

The United States spends enough on 'defense' to provide every homeless American with a one-million-dollar home.

Patrick) Henry rightly understood that the moral condition of the American people was a direct product of their religious faith, and that politics and morality were inevitably intertwined. Thus, the political structure ultimately rested on a religious foundation. The "great pillars of all government and of social life, "Henry once observed, are virtue, morality, and religion.

But the take from February 7, 1956 is the one we know today: Gonna-TELL-Aunt-MARy-'BOUT-Uncle-JOHN! That's the backbeat entering American popular music.

Labour day is a great American holiday that people celebrate by going out and buying products made in China

Obama has said his opponents were trying to 'scare and mislead the American people,' when in fact his opponents are the American people whom he is trying to scare and mislead.

Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.

We all salute, with pride, the same American Flag. And we are equal - totally equal - in the eyes of Almighty God.

LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.

Never lose your faith in the American Dream. She's a nation under God, and God has never let a good American down.

One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.

These are hallowed moments, when every American has reason to express his gratitude to Almighty God that it has been our good fortune to witness the light of this auspicious morn.

I'm an American by birth, but I'm a Texan by the Grace of God.

Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.

We can often do more by doing less. God is not particularly interested in quantity production. That is an American standard, not a Bible standard.

Bush explained his fundamental concept to me, that freedom is not an American invention, but rather a gift from God to all people.

All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it's a rather vapid form of religion.

It may not be in the constitution, but every American has a god-given right to provinciality and ignorance.

'Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed.

The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.

That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.