Food, one assumes, provides nourishment: but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence

In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows

Only in America - do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front of the store

I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield so fair a heritage of freedom a prey to 'Anarchy' or 'Despotism'

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries

I hope that no American...will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant

I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great