We Americans Quotes
80 quotes by 70 authors
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We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any…
— Deepak Chopra
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I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new…
— Carson McCullers
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We Americans have faith in ourselves, but not in ourselves alone. We do not know-we do not claim to know all the ways of Providence,…
— George W. Bush
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No citizen of this nation is worthy of the name unless he bears unswerving loyalty to the system under which he lives, the system that…
— John A. Hannah
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We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.
— Herman Melville
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The hard truth is carbon pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades now. And even if we Americans do our part, the planet…
— Barack Obama
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There seems to be an increasing awareness of something we Americans have known for some time - that the ten most dangerous words in the…
— Ronald Reagan
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The most fundamental paradox is that, if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use it successfully. We…
— Ronald Reagan
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We [Americans] move about the world arrogantly, calling wars when we want, overthrowing governments when we want. There is a price to be paid for…
— Harry Belafonte
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We Americans, in most states at least, have not yet experienced a bear-less, eagle-less, cat- less, wolf-less woods. Germany strove for maximum yields of both…
— Aldo Leopold
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The question we Americans need to address, before it is answered for us, is: Does this First World nation wish to become a Third World…
— Pat Buchanan
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There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home…
— O. Henry
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We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the…
— Emma Goldman
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We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.
— Jim Harrison
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From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans are great on…
— Gretel Ehrlich
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We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.
— Pat Buchanan
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This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state but against a…
— Chris Hedges
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If we Americans are split into two meaningful camps, it is not conservative versus liberal. The two camps are the politically awake and the hypnotized.
— Doris "Granny D" Haddock
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