North American People

Famous quotes containing the words american people, north, american and/or people:

“The American people have done much for the locomotive, and the locomotive has done much for them.”
—James A. Garfield (1831–1881)

“I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.”
—Edmund H. North (1911–1990)

“Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.”
—George F. Will (b. 1941)

“I can remember no time when I did not understand that my mother must write books because people would have and read them; but I cannot remember one hour in which her children needed her and did not find her.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)