Americana Quotes and 40 Americans

The article deals with quotes from people whose citizenship is American. There are 40 Americans listed as sources of quotes. Among the Americans listed as sources of quotes are Abraham Lincoln, Antonin Scalia, Benjamin Franklin, Betsy Devos, Calvin Coolidge, Charlton Heston, David Friedman, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower, Frank Sinatra, George Washington, James Comer, James Madison, Jeff Sessions, Jen Kiggans, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mike Pompeo, Steve Scalise, Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Jefferson. There are more.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN Quote: “Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

ALBERT EINSTEIN Quote: “Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

ANTONIN SCALIA Quote: “The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living but dead, or as I prefer to call it, enduring. It means today not what current society, much less the court, thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it was adopted.”

B.F. SKINNER Quote: “The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Quote: “There are no gains without pains.”

ANTONIN SCALIA Constitution Quote

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN No Pain No Gain Quote

BETSY DEVOS Quote: “Fighting for freedom in education is my life’s work.”

BILL DONAHUE Quote: “Harris says that those who endanger the safety of all Americans by attempting a violent overthrow of the government, or spying on the military for a foreign enemy, should have their lives spared, but innocent children who are moments away from being born are not entitled to have their lives spared.”

BILL RUSSELL Quote: “Maybe it’s egotism, but I have never seen another player who even approached the way I played the game in terms of depth. I’ve never seen anyone do the number of things I do well.”

BILLY GRAHAM Quote: “I find love to be the supreme and dominant attribute of God.”

BOB COUSY Quote: “I’ve said often over the years, I am literally the most fortunate, luckiest S.O.B. on the planet. Everything in my life has kind of fallen together. Most of the bounces have gone my way.”

BETSY DEVOS Education Quote

CALVIN COOLIDGE American Revolution Quote

BOB DYLAN Quote: “For the times, they are a-changin’.”

BRIAN MAST Quote: “Education is the building block for everything that we hope to achieve as a nation--from curing cancer to reducing homelessness.”

CALVIN COOLIDGE Quote: “The American Revolution represented the informed and mature convictions of a great mass of independent, liberty-loving, God-fearing people who knew their rights, and possessed the courage to dare to maintain them.”

CHARLTON HESTON Quote: “We disobey the social protocol that stifles and stigmatizes personal freedom.”

DALE CARNEGIE Quote: “Two men looked out from prison bars, one saw the mud, the other saw stars.”

DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Education Quote

DWIGHT EISENHOWER Freedom Quote

DAVID FRIEDMAN Quote: “The Bible… is foundational to the principles upon which America was founded.”

DENNIS PRAGER Quote: “Conservatism is common sense.”

DOLLY PARTON Quote: “Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”

DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Quote: “In the final analysis of the West Point product, character is the most precious component.”

DWIGHT EISENHOWER Quote: “This is our home [USA] -- yet this is not the whole of our world. For our world is where our full destiny lies -- with men, of all people and all nations, who are or would be free.”

EMILY DICKINSON Quote: “If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”

FRANK SINATRA Quote: “The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”

FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT Quote: “When there is no vision, the people perish.”

GEORGE B. HINCKLEY Quote: “Faith and willingness to believe will chase pessimism away and replace it with hope and confidence.”

GEORGE WASHINGTON Quote: “Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”

EMILY DICKINSON Life’s Purpose Quote

FRANK SINATRA Do Not Fear Quote

HENRY DAVID THOREAU Quote: “True kindness is a pure divine affinity, not founded upon human consanguinity. It is a spirit, not a blood relation, superior to family and station.”

HENRY FORD Quote: “The world is held together by the mass of honest folk who do their daily tasks, tend their own spot in the world, and have faith that at last the right will come fully into its own.”

HENRY VAN DYKE Quote: “It is a good thing to observe Christmas day. The mere marking of times and seasons, when men agree to stop work and make merry together, is a wise and wholesome custom…. But there is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.”

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Quote: “Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.”

JAMES COMER Quote: “One of the best ways for me to hear directly from constituents is through town hall meetings. Town hall forums are a great way for me to hear the concerns of my constituents… and… meet face to face with those I represent.”

JAMES MADISON Quote: “The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon… has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.”

JEFF SESSIONS Quote: “The most important time to defend a valued right is when it is being attacked or eroded.”

JEN KIGGANS Quote: “Securing our country’s borders is a basic responsibility of the federal government, and the American people have a right to expect that responsibility to be fulfilled.”

JIMMY VAN HEUSEN and SAMMY CAHN Quote: “Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage.”

LEO BUSCAGLIA Quote: “We are living in a culture where a person is not measured by who he is or what he is but rather by what he has.”

GEORGE WASHINGTON Friendship Quote

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Hate as Burden Quote

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Quote: “Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

MIKE POMPEO Quote: “… as a Secretary of State… the task that I have is informed by my understanding of my faith, my belief in Jesus Christ as the Savior… I think that makes a real difference, and so I want people to know.”

STEVE SCALISE Quote: “If you don’t agree, present what you think is a better way.”

THEODORE ROOSEVELT Quote: “The president’s duty is to act so that he himself and his subordinates shall be able to do efficient work for the people.”

THOMAS JEFFERSON Quote: “The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.”

Quote Highlight: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” – Thomas Jefferson as Primary Author, with Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Robert Livingston and Roger Sherman

BRIAN MAST Education Quote