America - Americans Quotes

“America?” said Mrs Liberty. “Won’t we get scalped?” “Good grief, no!” said William Stickers, who was a bit more up to date about the world. “Probably not,” said Mr Fletcher, who had been watching the news lately and was even more up to date than William Stickers.

We do not know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.

You say our country’s never been invaded? You’re right, little buddy. Because I’d like to see the needle-dicked foreigners who’d have the guts to try. We drink napalm to get our hearts started in the morning. A rape and a mugging is our way of saying “Cheerio.” Hell can’t hold our sock-hops. We walk taller, […]

Ain’t nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to driving a Cadillac overnight. Nowhere.

America wasn’t founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so that we could all be anything we damn well pleased.

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn’t block traffic.

Back in London – tired, discouraged and a little drunk – I called an old girlfriend from college. She and I had been through a lot together back when the U. S. was taking a punch at the Vietnamese and I was the one blocking the streets and screaming about American imperialism… “You’re bloody mad!” […]

We’re entering our third century now, but it’s wrong to judge our nation by its years. The calendar can’t measure America because we were meant to be an endless experiment in freedom, with no limits to our reaches, no boundaries to what we can do, no end point to our hopes.

America wasn’t founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damn well pleased.

America is too great for small dreams.