America Quotes - Page 6

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

One day every major city in America will have a telephone.

We have not ended racial caste in America, we have merely redesigned it.

WHAT is America but beauty queens, millionaires, stupid records and Hollywood?

No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I will hold up America to the lightning scorn of moral indignation. In doing this, I shall feel myself discharging the duty of a true patriot; for he is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins.

Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action. It is not adopted in criticism of others in the slightest degree, but solely for the purpose of protecting ourselves. We cast no aspersions on any race or creed, but we must remember that every object of our institutions of society and government will fail unless America be kept American.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

They talk about class warfare -- the fact of the matter is there has been class warfare for the last thirty years. It's a handful of billionaires taking on the entire middle-class and working-class of this country. And the result is you now have in America the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country on Earth and the worst inequality in America since 1928. How could anybody defend the top 400 richest people in this country owning more wealth than the bottom half of America, 150 million people?

At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

The best AC/DC cover I've heard? There was an all-girl cover band in America, the Hell's Belles.

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.

When the history of the 20th century is finally written, one of its key features will be the wanton slaughter of more than 170 million people, not in war, but by their own government. The governments that led in this slaughter are the former USSR (65 million) and the Peoples Republic of China (35-40 million). The point to remember is that these governments were the idols of America's leftists. Part of the reason for these and other tyrannical successes was because the people were first disarmed.

We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.

I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

The song that I will sing is an old song, so old that none knows who made it. It has been handed down through generations and was taught to me when I was but a little lad. It is now my own song. It belongs to me. This is a holy song (medicine-song), and great is its power. The song tells how, as I sing, I go through the air to a holy place where Yusun (The Supreme Being) will give me power to do wonderful things. I am surrounded by little clouds, and as I go through the air I change, becoming spirit only.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.