American Quotes

I don't analyze things all the time, I just do them.

Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business.

We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.

Jack doesn't belong anymore to just a family. He belongs to the country.

If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor; and if there's anything I think I'd hate worse than an actor as a son-in-law, it's an English actor.

I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.

He's a great kid. He hates the same way I do.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.

He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

The province was surrounded by powerful tribes of Indians who watched the white settlers with an eager hostility, and seized every occasion to molest them by secret inroad, and often by open assault.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.