Great American Quotes
87 quotes by 83 authors
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I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Losing is the great American sin.
— Unknown Author
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If farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a better life on our shores…
— Michelle Obama
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Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past. We have not assumed that…
— Jimmy Carter
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I once donated a pint of my finest red corpuscles to the great American Red Cross and the doctor opined my blood was very helpful;…
— W.C. Fields
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Our resources may be finite, but our will is infinite, and I am confident that if we come together and summon that great American spirit…
— Barack Obama
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Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education,
— Eduardo J. Padron
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President Bush threw out the first pitch Monday at Cincinnati's great American ball park. 18 Iraqis were killed.
— Amy Poehler
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The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.
— Ty Cobb
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Neo-Hoodoo is the 8 basic dances of 19th century New Orleans' Place Congo- the Calinda the Bamboula the Chacta the Babouille the Conjaille the Juba…
— Ishmael Reed
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Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.
— Dan Quayle
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We were really helped when President Ronald Reagan came in. I remember non-commissioned officers who were going to retire and they re-enlisted because they believed…
— Wesley Clark
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Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight. From Kiev to…
— Unknown Author
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There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The trap into which all writers have, will, or should fall into, of writing The Great American Watchamacallit, is such an uncluttered and inviting one…
— Harlan Ellison
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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
— Edgar Winter
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When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that…
— Hideki Tojo
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Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island’s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is the chronicle of a…
— Philip Gourevitch
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It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though…
— Maureen Corrigan
Who Wrote These Great American Quotes
83 authors contributed a total of 87 Great American Quotes, led by these top contributors: