America Quote by Fisher Ames Download Open image “America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages.” — Fisher Ames ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare America Bones Giants Rising
Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands on a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton. — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
“Americans consume more cow’s milk and its products per person than most populations in the world. So Americans should have wonderfully strong bones, right? Unfortunately not. A recent study showed that American women aged fifty and older have one of the highest rates of hip fractures in the world. 1 The only countries with higher rates are in Europe and… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share
I feel that America is like a child that grew up so strong and so fast and so tall that it became self-conscious about… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
When you hear Donald Trump say he wants to make America great again, when we do that I truly do believe the American people are going to be standing taller, they're going to see that real change can happen after decades of just talking about it. And when that happens the American people are going to stand tall, stand together… — Mike Pence Copy Share
It is time to show the whole world that America is back - bigger and better and stronger than ever before. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“It is deeply ironic that while America was hemming and hawing over whether to go metric on account of its shrinking place in world… — John Bemelmans Marciano Copy Share Image
A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy. — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about the people. It is the stale artifice which has duped the world a thousand times, and yet, though detected, it is still successful. I love liberty as well as anybody. I am proud of it, as the true… — Fisher Ames Copy Share
The people as a body cannot deliberate. Nevertheless, they will feel an irresistible impulse to act, and their resolutions will be dictated to them by their demagogues... and the violent men, who are the most forward to gratify those passions, will be their favorites. What is called the government of the people is in fact too often the arbitrary power… — Fisher Ames Copy Share
Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place it once… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble.… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into. — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law. — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny. — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to bankrupt America by drawing it into a trap. The 2011 military budget - almost matching that of the rest of the world combined - is higher in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no… — George Orwell Copy Share
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image