Americans Quotes

• If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • History
  • Americans
  • White Man

• Americans have a longstanding affinity with railroads and railroad tracks, but train tracks are private property and are dangerous places where trains kill and injure hundreds of people every year.

  

  Christopher Hart
  • Dangerous
  • Injure
  • Railroads

• Americans will see that when lesbians and gay men are given access to most of the rights and obligations of civil marriage, the sky will not fall and the institution of marriage will be even stronger.

  

  Evan Wolfson
  • Marriage
  • Access
  • Institution

• I'm a conservative but not because I care very much about the marginal tax rates of the richest Americans, rather I'm a market-oriented localist because I believe in cultural pluralism and I believe in the First Amendment, in voluntarism over compulsion whenever possible, and in as much de-centralized decision-making as is conceivably feasible.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • I Believe
  • Pluralism
  • Tax Rates

• Americans are good at making dance music.

  

  Ed Simons The Chemical Brothers
  • Good
  • Americans
  • Dance Music

• How many of the original songs survive intact from the slave cabins? Probably not many in their original form. Time has transformed them like light in a prism. What we hope to present is a version of those spirituals, and they speak not just to black Americans, but to people worldwide.

  

  Kathleen Battle
  • Survive
  • Version
  • Original

• Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Country
  • Americans
  • Foreign Policy

• With or without the Royals, we are not Americans. Nor are we British. Or French. Or Void. We are something else. And the sooner we define this, the better.

  

  Will Ferguson
  • Better
  • British
  • French

• Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls.

  

  Walker Percy
  • People
  • Up
  • Free

• The notion that Americans can be protected from "terror" by giving up the Bill of Rights is absurd. Democrats are complicit in this absurd notion. Many were intimidated into voting for police state legislation, because they lacked the intestinal fortitude to call police state legislation by its own name. The legislation that has been passed during the Bush regime is far more dangerous to Americans than Muslim terrorists.

  

  Paul Craig Roberts
  • Terror
  • Democrats
  • Protected

• The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.

  

  Will Ferguson
  • Great
  • Disappear
  • French

• There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Deep
  • Paranoia
  • Not Being

• Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.

  

  Michael Kinsley
  • Leadership
  • Americans
  • Alchemy

• If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green... If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don't deserve to survive, and probably won't.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Children
  • Choose
  • Survive

• Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.

  

  George Michael
  • Democratic
  • Minority
  • Bigotry

• The thing that I think is so depressing, fundamentally, about Donald Trump, is that he doesn't appreciate what's happening right now. He doesn't seem to think it's an honor. He doesn't seem to understand why we're actually super blessed to have the government we have. I also don't ever get the sense that he loves Americans.

  

  Alyssa Mastromonaco
  • Americans
  • Loves
  • Donald Trump

• The United States is no more a Christian nation because most of its citizens are Christians than it is a 'white' nation because most of its citizens are white. We are Americans because we practice democracy and believe in republican government, not because we practice revealed religion and believe in Bible-based government.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Believe
  • Government
  • Bible

• Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south - let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving. We shall have so saved it, that the succeeding millions of free happy people, the world over, shall rise up, and call us blessed, to the latest generations.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Generations
  • Union
  • Declaration of Independence

• Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Behavior
  • Americans
  • Shocked

• We're Americans! Do you know what that means? It means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.

  

  Bill Murray
  • World
  • Forefathers
  • Decent country

• Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

  

  Ezekiel Emanuel
  • Americans
  • Euthanasia
  • Endorse

• African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • News
  • Americans
  • African Americans

• I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Believe
  • Americans
  • Human Rights

• Yet, despite his best efforts and intentions, Barack Obama, unlike George W. Bush, will leave office without having found a way to persuade Congress to raise the minimum wage for all workers nationwide. Thus, as of this writing, the federal minimum wage remains $7.25—which, in terms of purchasing power, is lower than it was in 1968. Little wonder that so many working Americans are struggling.

  

  Bill Press
  • Wonder
  • Congress
  • Workers

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