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America Quotes by Mark Twain
- In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.
- Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will…
- The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as…
- If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be…
- Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have…
- In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which…
- In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in…
- As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not…
- The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They…
- America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.
- All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever…
- If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.
- It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
- In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the…
More America Quotes
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending… — Bashar al-Assad
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon