American Sayings in 2025

“Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins.” – Cheyenne

“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”

“What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom ‘to’ and freedom ‘from’.”

“I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself.”

“When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.” John Basil Barnhill.

“When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us.” – Arapaho

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. -Walt Disney

“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.”

“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”

“There is nothing as eloquent as a rattlesnake’s tail.” – Navajo

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”

“Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.”

“We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.”

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” George Orwell.

“If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come.” – Arapaho

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. -Steve Jobs

“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.”

“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”