American Eagle Quotes:

We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

source: The Four Freedoms, delivered 6 January, 1941 (photo of FDR in 1936)

topic: Selfish, Men, Eagles, American Eagle, Selfish Men

Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

- Sitting Bull

topic: Fake People, Native American, Men, Indian, Indian Wisdom

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.

- Crazy Horse

topic: Children, Parent, Earth, Indian Wisdom, Spiritual Indian

Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.

- Tecumseh

source: "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

topic: Love You, Perfect, Love Your Life, Indian, Indian Tribes

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

- Sitting Bull

source: "I have spoken; American history through the voices of the Indians". Book by Virginia Armstrong, Chicago, Sage Books, 1971.

topic: Heart, Men, Eagles, Indian, Indian Wisdom

Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.

- Sitting Bull

topic: Native American, Men, Sight, Indian, Lakota

Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.

- Tecumseh

source: "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

topic: Native American, Views, Demand, Indian Wisdom, Spiritual Indian

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

- Chief Seattle

topic: Motivational, Wisdom, Peace, Indian, Indian Wisdom

So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide

- Tecumseh

source: "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

topic: Song, Love You, Heart, Indian Tribes, Indian Wisdom

Democracy is the eagle on the back of a dollar bill, with 13 arrows in one claw, 13 leaves on a branch, 13 tail feathers, and 13 stars over its head - this signifies that when the white man came to this country, it was bad luck for the Indians, bad luck for the trees, bad luck for the wildlife, and lights out for the American eagle.

- Johnny Carson

topic: Country, Stars, Men, American Eagle

I've always thought the American eagle needed a left wing and a right wing. The right wing would see to it that economic interests had their legitimate concerns addressed. The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it's no longer an eagle and it's going to crash.

- Bill Moyers

topic: Eagles, Wings, Two, Ordinary People, American Eagle

The very first thing the President [Truman] did was to show me the new Presidential Seal, which he had just redesigned. He explained, 'The seal has to go everywhere the President goes. It must be displayed upon the lectern when he speaks. The eagle used to face the arrows but I have re-designed it so that it now faces the olive branches ... what do you think?' I said, 'Mr. President, with the greatest respect, I would prefer the American eagle's neck to be on a swivel so that it could face the olive branches or the arrows, as the occasion might demand.'

- Winston Churchill

topic: Thinking, Eagles, Arrows, Olive Branches, Truman

American Eagle can be a selling point for other young, cutting-edge companies to come to Pittsburgh

- Ed Rendell

topic: Cutting, Eagles, Pittsburgh, American Eagle

American Eagle clothing is stylish, flattering and all about embracing your individuality.

- Shay Mitchell

topic: Eagles, Individuality, Stylish, American Eagle

I'm a longtime fan of American Eagle, so when they approached me about joining their 'Live Your Life' campaign, it already felt like an organic fit.

- Shay Mitchell

topic: Eagles, Live Your Life, Fans, American Eagle

It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch.

- Jane Swisshelm

topic: Sight, Eagles, Sheets, American Eagle

If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all the nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples, and as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship, we should incorporate them into the American body politic. The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come.

- Frederick Douglass

source: "Our Composite Nationality". Frederick Douglass' Address in Boston, Massachusetts, teachingamericanhistory.org. December 7, 1869.

topic: Eagles, Civilization, Wings, Illegal Immigration, Kindred

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Ostriches, Eagles, Europe, American Eagle