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| The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it. | | Henry Kissinger | |
| There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the worl | | Edmund Burke | |
| There is an option still left to the United States of America, that it is in their choice and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous or contemptible and miserable as a Nation | | George Washington | |
| There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. | | Gilbert K. Chesterton | |
| There is today in the United States as much forest as there was when Washington was at Valley Forge | | Ronald Reagan | |
| This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it | | Al Capone | |
| Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. | | Albert Einstein | |
| Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in the | | Albert Einstein | |
| Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults. | | Gore Vidal | |
| We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries | | Will Durant | |
| We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all. | | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action | | Woodrow T. Wilson | |
| We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen. | | Mark Twain | |
| What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them | | Henry Ford | |
| Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor | | E. B. White | |
| When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner li | | Adlai E. Stevenson | |
| When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural right to compel them to obedience | | Thomas Jefferson | |
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| When I contemplate the interposition of Providence, as it was visibly manifested, in guiding us through the Revolution, in preparing us for the reception of a general government, and in conciliating the good will of the People of America towards one | | George Washington | |
| When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states. | | Will Rogers | |
