Best We Americans Quotes
80 We Americans quotes by 70 unique authors
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We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest…
— Peter Yarrow
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It saddens me to think that there are children in America who are hungry every day of their lives. No one can live - and…
— Tim McGraw
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We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we are ruled by progress.
— Michael Dorris
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If we Americans are to learn from our mistakes, from the flailing, ineffective way we, as a nation, conducted the war on terror after the…
— David Oliver Relin
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How we [Americans] move [on climate] will determine the international direction. To lead, we must act.
— Eileen Claussen
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of…
— J. William Fulbright
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We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and…
— Mark Twain
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We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The rule of freedom…
— Walter Russell Mead
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We Americans understand freedom; we have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This nation and its people are…
— Barry Goldwater
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We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.
— Mark Twain
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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…
— William Faulkner
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Slowly, and in spite of anything we Americans do or do not do, it looks a little as if you and some other good people…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of…
— James A. Baldwin
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We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of…
— David Mamet
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We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the…
— Francis Spellman
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We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.
— Constance Baker Motley
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I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a…
— Greg LeMond
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I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.
— Paul Bremer
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We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in…
— Salvatore J. Cordileone
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As a revolutionary people, we Americans won a probable victory over the best and biggest army in the world because we learned to fight from…
— James Lee
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We Americans are a peculiar people. We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is.
— Happy Chandler
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We Americans only voted for George Bush to prove to the British that Americans understand irony. Unfortunately, it kinda backfired.
— Scott Capurro
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We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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We Americans think we are pretty good! We want to build a house, we cut down some trees. We want to build a fire, we…
— Will Rogers
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