Quotes of: American-life Keyword

An American will go to hell for a bag of coffee.

American

Nobody gets out of the bed to sleep on the floor.

Native American

He who lives on illusions, dies of disillusion.

South American

He who prays a lot is afraid of something.

South American

Two cats will not live together in one sack.

South American

...When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii and hand over our power, we are not acting like true Americans. Indeed, at those moments we are giving up our citizenship.

Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries

Most every charge you level at American capitalism applies with equal force to communism, with this nice difference, that the Reds make no pretense at such frivolities as civil liberties or environmentalism. The differences in degree are so great tha...

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role in ensuring that what the United States does abroad is not merely in keeping with a foreign policy...

Mohsin Hamid

It was in 1931 that the historian James Truslow Adams coined the phrase “the American dream.” The American dream is not just a yearning for affluence, Adams said, but also for the chance to overcome barriers and social class, to become the best t...

Nicholas D. Kristof

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals

There are as many jobs for younger Americans as there are for other Americans of every age group in political campaigns. Campaigns are very labor intensive and volunteer dependent.

Marc Racicot

The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.

John Avlon

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.

Atlas of the Human Heart

…she eventually forgave him, because she understood him.

How to Make an American Quilt

The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.

The Roots of American Order

Not all questions can be answered.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.

Buzz Aldrin

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

Michael Moore

Nuclear weapons kill Americans - they don't kill Republicans or Democrats - they kill Americans.

Joe Wilson

We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.

Oscar Robertson

We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way.

Paul Wolfowitz