English is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life. — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a… — Michael Baumgartner Copy Share Image
American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
There is no price tag on an American life - whether it's in Florida, Texas, or Puerto Rico. — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
“It seems as if from being a novelty nine-day wonder, the super-hero has become a part of American life. It's here to… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I'm Mexican-American, but I grew up with a normal American life. I don't have a low rider. I drive a Honda. I… — Snow Tha Product Copy Share Image
“In Conclusion, let us inquire what has been and what is to be the Meaning of the Great Plains in American Life” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything… — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the… — Wolfman Jack Copy Share Image
Should I become President...I will not risk American lives...by permitting any other nation to drag us into the wrong war at the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence summarizes the civic principles of American life. It agrees with this biblical perspective when it affirms that we… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
“Let us leave in suspension such debates about the economic costs of the War and look at another kind of cost, a… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work,… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
Commercialism is the blemish on the fair face of American life. Fighting against the terrible conditions of the explorer and pioneer, our… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
The strongest argument for the unmaterialistic character of American life is . . . that we tolerate conditions that are, from a… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
In our methodical American life, we still recognize some magic in summer. Most persons at least resign themselves to being decently happy… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
I had been conscious of depression and so I voiced to (Sec. Of War Stimson) my grave misgivings, first on the basis… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Though the two issues may seem utterly unrelated, they do have this in common - both health care and higher education are… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“The line in the sand that Carter drew along Iran’s Zagros Mountains now stretches from Central Asia through the Middle East and… — Andrew J. Bacevich Copy Share Image
I think we're going to care more about Americans than Africans. I don't think that's ever going to go away, and I… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“In our personal lives, we can seek to align our behavior with our values. We can live more simply, at once reducing… — John C. Ryan Copy Share Image
“American culture quite naturally provides these ideological supports to those it favors and elects as fellow participants in the social and psychological… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
“[M]ost Americans are still drawing some water from the Christian well. But a growing number are inventing their own versions of what… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“Everything said about Gen Xers--both positive and negative--was completely true. Twenty-somethings in the nineties rejected the traditional working-class American lifestyle because (a)… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“Within sixty-minute limits or one-hundred-yard limits or the limits of a game board, we can look for perfect moments or perfect structures.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Progressivism was imported from Europe and would result in a radical break from America’s heritage. In fact, it is best described as… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“Driving a hybrid car could save about one ton of carbon-dioxide emissions per year but adopting a plant-based diet would save nearly… — Gene Stone Copy Share Image
“Can it be that the ultimate chapter of this new era of democratic freedom is going to be deformed by this growing… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
It seems to be a law of American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life. — John Lahr Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful crosscurrents to illiberalism in American life is a broad-minded and democratic egalitarianism. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image