Americana Quotes and 35 Americans

The article deals with quotes from people whose citizenship is American. There are 35 Americans listed as sources of quotes. Some of their quotes are personal in nature. Some are inspirational while others are motivational. Still others are food for thought quotes. Among the Americans listed as sources of quotes are Calvin Coolidge, Joel Kotkin, John Adams, John Hagee, Joyce Kilmer, Kenny Rogers, Lee Iacocca, Leo Buscaglia, Martin Luther King Jr., Mike Pompeo, Muhammad Ali, Neil Armstrong, Patrick Henry, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Ronald Reagan, Samuel Francis Smith, Steve Scalise, Susan B. Anthony, William Penn and William Wundt. There are more.

ABRAHAM MASLOW Quote: “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”

ALEXANDER HAMILTON Quote: “In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government.”

CALVIN COOLIDGE Quote: “No other theory is adequate to explain or comprehend the Declaration of Independence. It is the product of the spiritual insight of the people. We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create our Declaration. Our Declaration created them.”

DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Quote: “I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting.”

JOEL KOTKIN Quote: “We’re adopting [in America] the kind of education perfected in Stalin’s Russia…. today’s academic field – and not just in America – increasingly engages in a holy war against Western civilisation itself. Whole centuries seem to be vanishing from our classrooms.”

JOHN ADAMS Quote: “All sober enquiries after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity consists in virtue.”

JOHN HAGEE Quote: “There is no greater weapon in this world than praying in the Spirit.”

JOYCE KILMER Quote: “Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree.”

JOYCE MEYER Quote: “Prayer is such a privilege. Prayer literally brings the power of heaven to earth!”

KENNY ROGERS Quote: “If you want people to know what your message is, just sing it.”

CALVIN COOLIDGE Declaration of Independence Quote

JOHN HAGEE Prayer Quote

LEE IACOCCA Quote: “Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can’t miss.”

LEO BUSCAGLIA Quote: “This book [Love] is dedicated to Tulio and Rosa Buscaglia, my father and my mother who were my best teachers of love, because they never taught me, they showed me.”

M. SCOTT PECK Quote: “Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.”

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Quote: “Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral.”

MAX EHRMANN Quote: “You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.”

MIKE LEE Quote: “It is the fundamental right of parents to choose the educational path that is most suitable for their children.”

MIKE POMPEO Quote: “The spirit of free people, not the vulgar materialism and repression of Communism, is eternal and universal.”

MUHAMMAD ALI Quote: “I am the greatest.”

NIEL ARMSTRONG Quote: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

PATRICK HENRY Quote: “I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

MAX EHRMANN Life Quote

MIKE POMPEO Freedom Quote 

PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Quote: “Sing, earthlings, sing! To-night a King hath come from heaven’s high throne to bless us.”

ROBERT FROST Quote: “Earth’s the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.”

ROBERT GATES Quote: “I think he [Joe Biden] has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”

RONALD REAGAN Quote: “If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”

SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH Quote: “My country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing: land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims’ pride, from every mountainside let freedom ring!”

STEVE SCALISE Quote: “This was a nation founded with a deep belief in God.” – Steve Scalise about America vis-à-vis Faith and Liberty

SUSAN B. ANTHONY Quote: “Nothing is hopeless that is right.”

THEODORE ROOSEVELT Quote: “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”

TIM SCOTT Quote: “I’m an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God - and that makes the difference.”

THOMAS EDISON Quote: “Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.”

THOMAS JEFFERSON Quote: “Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” – Line from the United States’ Declaration of Independence

THOMAS PAINE Quote: “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”

ULYSSES GRANT Quote: “Whatever may have been my political opinions before, I have but one sentiment now. That is, we have a government, and laws and a flag and they must all be sustained.”

WILLIAM JAMES Quote: “Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse.”

WILLIAM PENN Quote: “In Marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self; one that bears an equal share with thee in all thy toils and troubles.”

ROBERT GATES Foreign Policy Quote

RONALD REAGAN God Quote

STEVE SCALISE America Quote

SUSAN B. ANTHONY Hope Quote

MIKE POMPEO America Quote