America Quotes, Sayings about USA


America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.
Marshall McLuhan

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent business man.
Sinclair Lewis

America’s greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.
Anthony Walton

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
Gloria Steinem

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
Bill Clinton

In an English ship, they say, it is poor grub, poor pay, and easy work; in an American ship, good grub, good pay, and hard work. And this is applicable to the working populations of both countries.
Jack London

‘Tis the star-spangled banner; O long may it wave
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!
Francis Scott Key

America…where law and customs alike are based on the dreams of spinsters.
Bertrand Russell

By the waters of Babylon we sit down and weep, when we think of thee, O America!
Horace Walpole

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
Katharine Lee Bates

America is a young country with an old mentality.
George Santayana

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
George Bernard Shaw

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace; and America is just ourselves, with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
Matthew Arnold

We’re Americans, we’re a simple people but if you piss us off we’ll bomb your cities.
Robin Williams

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in this world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s History shall reveal itself.
Georg W. Hegel

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
Frank Zappa

The national dish of America is menus.
Robert Robinson

When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square. Very unattractive.
John Gielgud

Yankee Doodle came to town
Riding on a pony;
Stuck a feather in his cap
And called it Macaroni.
Edward Bangs

Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself while looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
Herbert Hoover

The American system of rugged individualism.
Herbert Clark Hoover

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
Gertrude Stein

The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.
Lord Grey

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
Mary McCarthy

The business of America is business.
Calvin Coolidge

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
Mark Twain

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde

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