America Quote by Stephen Leacock Download Open image “The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.” — Stephen Leacock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare America Brought Fortune Disaster Disasters Europe Europe Europe Brought Fortune Fortune America Sorrow Wealth
The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity. — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
It's tragic what America has become because there is a great segment of society that now resents luxury and success and achievement by others. — Robin Leach Copy Share Image
The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed… (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The people of the United States have been fortunate in many things. One of the things in which we have been most fortunate has… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in the agricultural… — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon,… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
“Suppose a would-be writer can't begin? I really believe there are many excellent writers who have never written because they never could begin. This… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who… — Stephen Leacock 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… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
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… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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