America - Americans Quotes

America is becoming a land of private greed and public squalor.

Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of […]

If there is a country in the world where concord, according to common calculation, would be least expected, it is America.

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

It’s time to say that America is a better place to be a Jew than Jerusalem. If there ever was a promised land, we Jewish Americans are living in it.

Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is Americans- our inferior one varies with the place.

I imagined our leaders seizing upon this moment of unity in America, this moment when no one wanted to talk about Democrat versus Republican, white versus black, or any of the other ridiculous divisions that dominate our public discourse. I imagined our leaders going on television telling the citizens that although we all want to […]

No one likes us I don’t know why. We may not be perfect But heaven knows we try. But all around even our old friends put us down. Let’s drop the big one and see what happens. We give them money But are they grateful? No they’re spiteful And they’re hateful. They don’t respect us […]

America is a country that doesn’t know where it’s going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

God in his great mercy has blessed America, and made this a haven for Christians and Jews alike. But we’ve gone away from our Christian heritage. And God has little obligation at the present time to spare America, because we are polluting the world with our television programs, our movies and so forth, our books. […]