America Quotes

• "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
  By: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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• "I hope that no American ... will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant."
  By: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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• "The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian."
  By: George Frost Kennan
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• "The best [an American] can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been."
  By: George Frost Kennan
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• "What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise."
  By: Barbara Charline Jordan
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• "They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do."
  By: Lyndon Baines Johnson
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• "We Americans know-although others appear to forget-the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war (On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam)."
  By: Lyndon Baines Johnson
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• "We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them."
  By: Lillian Hellman
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• "Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role."
  By: William Torrey Harris
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• "Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out."
  By: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
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• "Harrison Ford as the President of the United States [in Air Force One] is such a perfect piece of casting that it's once a fantasy and a joke: The joke is how perfect the fantasy is."
  By: Owen Gleiberman
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• "I was looking for an American symbol. A Coca-Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing anything with the American flag would have been insulting, and Cadillac hub caps were just too uncomfortable (speaking about the dress she wore made of American Express Cards)."
  By: Lizzy Gardiner
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• "We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created."
  By: Waldo Frank
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• "An American is a man with two arms and four wheels."
  By: A Chinese Child
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• "America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America."
  By: James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
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• "My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way."
  By: Al Capone
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