If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as though it increases. Perhaps that is a little strange, yes, but in all honesty, I now want to be thought unfaithful about as much as a smug aristocrat wants to be thought a hobo.

Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country.

...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old way ... We weren't starving, we weren't bugged by the police, locked up in madhouses for our ideas, arrested, deported, slave laborers sent to die in concentration camps. We were spared the holocausts and nights of terror. With our advantages we should be formulating the new basic questions for mankind. But instead we sleep. Just sleep and sleep, and eat and play and fuss and sleep again.

America! America! God shed His grace on thee.

America-half-brother of the world; With something good and bad of every land.

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.

Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great.

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Laughter is America's most important export.

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

There's a big anti-intellectual strain in the American south, and there always has been. We're not big on thought.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.

In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.

America is just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

Americans can be counted on to do the right thing after they have exhausted all other options.