Famous American Quotes
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.
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American!
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Alien. An American sovereign in his probationary state.
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
There are no second acts in American lives.
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.