America Quote by John le Carre

“they said you were mentally healthy, but your madness is the worst”

— Ingmar Bergman

Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose

— Winston Churchill

“The next few weeks were the worst he could remember. Too many things were coming back to him, too much of what he'd lost…

— Margaret Atwood

“Because, worst of all, I remember every second of what it was like to lose my life.”

— Suzanne Young

Even if America entered the war, it is improbable that the Allied armies could invade Europe and overwhelm the Axis powers. But one thing…

— Charles Lindbergh

I viewed the station as a place, a terrain where I could put a new architecture in place. The station was, of course, an…

— Gae Aulenti

Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is partly derived…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

One cannot overstate the childishness of the ideas that feed and stir the masses. Real ideas must as a rule be simplified to the…

— Sebastian Haffner

The war in Iraq is a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times a new world…

— George W. Bush

When Americans decry our politicians, we must remember that ultimately, politicians reflect us. When we demand more than mediocrity - and the passing comforts…

— James M Strock

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

— Renee Fleming

We in Illinois are very fortunate to have a number of historic structures that have added immeasurably to the cultural life of the state,…

— James R. Thompson

Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.

— Max Baucus

While the 1963 Birmingham church bombing is the most historic, there also was a series of church burnings in the 1990s. Recognition of the…

— Anthea Butler

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson