American Quotes

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.

The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.

Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America.

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.

The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

In the game of football, you can never be too sure of anything.

I like to win, I like to compete and I like to sack the quarterback. I imagine there's a team out there looking for that.

I am critical of myself.

The new limitations are the human ones of perception.

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.