Americans Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit…

— Henry Clay

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free from any suspicion of improper action…

— Theodore Roosevelt

So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when…

— Barack Obama

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

— Carl Andre

I do think that Americans do not understand that things are done differently in other parts of the world and that the other ways…

— Andrew Sean Greer

The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Malaysians, during the colonial period, were not given the top positions: we were always subordinate. Fortunately for us, the people who took over were…

— Mahathir Mohamad

Usually, people who don't have a broad perspective see gay people as servants - as people who are there to make them look good.

— RuPaul

We'd been watching something full of rich people, rich food, beautiful clothes and we had chips on our shoulders, I suppose. And we thought,…

— Jean Marsh

I think Americans understand that in Afghanistan, unlike in Iraq and Vietnam, we are fighting an enemy allied with the people who attacked us…

— Richard Holbrooke

“Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. The words ‘to make money’ hold the essence of human morality.”

— Ayn Rand

We must reject the cynicism that says allowing every eligible vote to be cast and counted is a 'power grab.' Americans understand that these…

— Stacey Abrams

[Americans] can't understand that the water in our toilet is cleaner than 880 million have access to.

— Matt Damon

Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall never come…

— Jimmy Carter