Quotes About The American Legion

#1. The leadership of the American Legion has not had a constructive thought for the benefit of this country since 1918.

John F. Kennedy

#2. Joe Louis was one of my closest friends ... I'm a great boxing fan. I used to go to the American Legion Stadium in Hollywood, every Friday night for 15 years. Down the aisle would come Lupe Velez, Johnny Weismuller, Mae West. All at ringside.

Mickey Rooney

#3. The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.

Dave Winfield

#4. In this climate - with belief in guardian angels and creationism becoming commonplace - making fun of religion is as risky as burning a flag in an American Legion hall.

Wendy Kaminer

#5. Not only is he my broadcast partner, but we travel together so much, he's become like my best friend.

Josh Mathews

#6. Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not ... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

Pope Benedict XVI

#7. I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.

Iman

#8. In the real world, I see conservatives volunteering at adoption agencies, at churches, at bake sales and the local American Legion Post while the only charity a progressive sends is a smug sermon on fair share and what fairness is.

Allen West

#9. Not all people who inspire devotion are monsters.

Kristin Cashore

#10. There are many things in my life I want to forget. But this I intend to remember.

Brynn Kelly

#11. Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.

Dennis Prager

#12. I wake up every morning and thank God I live in a country where all of this is possible. Where you have the Yankee ingenuity to roll up your sleeves, get a band of people who believe in something and go for it and make it happen. It doesn't happen anywhere else.

Brian Binnie

#13. The high IQ has become the American equivalent of the Legion of Honor, positive proof of a child's intellectual aristocracy ... It has become more important to be a smart kid than a good kid or even a healthy kid.

Sam Levenson

#14. Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

Plutarch