Posts Tagged ‘America’
For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.
Will Rogers
If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.
Will Rogers
I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father.
Will Rogers
We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.
Waldo Frank
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.
Van Wyck Brooks
There is a need for heroism in American life today.
Vicki Baum
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.
Thomas Jefferson
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate – to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
Thomas Jefferson
The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain. . .
Thomas Jefferson
The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.
Thomas Jefferson