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| In AMERICA the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| A serious problem in AMERICA is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of AMERICAn life and no impact whatever on public policy. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| All modern AMERICAn literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. AMERICAn writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since. | Ernest Hemingway | 1898-1961, American Writer |
| We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, ''That man is a Red, that man is a Communist.'' You never heard a real AMERICAn talk in that manner. | Frank Hague | |
| The common faults of AMERICAn language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. | James F. Cooper | 1789-1851, American Novelist |
| Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and AMERICA. | Lillian Hellman | 1905-1984, American Playwright |
| We have really everything in common with AMERICA nowadays, except, of course, language. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| Our AMERICAn professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. | Sinclair Lewis | 1885-1951, First American Novelist to win the Nobel Prize for literature |
| There are seventy million books in AMERICAn libraries, but the one you want is always out. | Thomas L. Masson | |
| Nothing could be more inappropriate to AMERICAn literature than its English source since the AMERICAns are not British in sensibility. | Wallace Stevens | 1879-1955, American Poet |
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| In every AMERICAn there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. | A. E. Housman | 1859-1936, British Poet, Classical Scholar |
| The AMERICAn lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
| It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe. | Albert J. Beveridge | American Senator |
| Two things in AMERICA are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behaviour and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| The whole life of an AMERICAn is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in AMERICA. | Allan Bloom | 1930-1992, American Educator, Author |
| AMERICA is promises to take! AMERICA is promises to us to take them. | Archibald Macleish | 1892-1982, American Poet |
| AMERICA is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. | Arnold Toynbee | 1852-1883, British Economic Historian and Social Reformer |
| AMERICA is an adorable woman chewing tobacco. | Auguste Bartholdi | |
| I like AMERICA, just as everybody else does. I love AMERICA, I gotta say that. But AMERICA will be judged. | Bob Dylan | 1941-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter |
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| In AMERICA everything's about who's number one today. | Bruce Springsteen | 1949-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter |
| The business of AMERICA is business and the chief ideal of the AMERICAn people is idealism. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
| It is capitalist AMERICA that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behaviour, career, and sexual orientation. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others. | Carlos Fuentes | 1928-, Mexican Novelist, Short-Story Writer |
| I take space to be the central fact to man born in AMERICA. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy. | Charles Olson | |
| I have no further use for AMERICA. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President. | Charlie Chaplin | 1889-1977, British Comic Actor, Filmmaker |
| AMERICA is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got. | Charlotte Bunch | |
| The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down. | Conor Cruise O'Brien | 1917-, Irish Historian, Critic, and Statesman |
| AMERICA does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you -- no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact. | D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930, British Author |
| The most important AMERICAn addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of AMERICA. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises. | Daniel J. Boorstin | 1914-, American Historian |
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| Part of the AMERICAn dream is to live long and die young. Only those AMERICAns who are willing to die for their country are fit to live. | Douglas Macarthur | 1880-1964, American Army General in WW II |
| Here in AMERICA we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA |
| I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem -- and that yardstick is: Is it good for AMERICA? | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA |
| Only AMERICAns can hurt AMERICA. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA |
| There is nothing wrong with AMERICA that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA |
| Whatever AMERICA hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of AMERICA. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA |
| AMERICA makes prodigious mistakes, AMERICA has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: AMERICA is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still. | E.E. | Edward. E.) Cummings (1894-1962, American Poet |
| At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks. | E.E. | Edward. E.) Cummings (1894-1962, American Poet |
| Young man, there is AMERICA, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners. | Edmund Burke | 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman |
| A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. | Edmund Burke | 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman |
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| AMERICA is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large. | Edward M. Forster | 1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist |
| The superficiality of the AMERICAn is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility. | Eric Hoffer | 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher |
| People cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room. | Ernest Dimnet | 1866-1954, French Clergyman |
| I sometimes think that the saving grace of AMERICA lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of AMERICAns are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humour and a sense of proportion. | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA |
| This generation of AMERICAns has a rendezvous with destiny. | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA |
| AMERICA is, therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's history shall reveal itself. It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of Old Europe. | Georg Hegel | 1770-1831, German Philosopher |
| AMERICA is a young country with an old mentality. | George Santayana | 1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet |
| It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theatres, etc. that make AMERICA impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. | George Santayana | 1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet |
| AMERICA is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. | Georges Clemenceau | 1841-1929, French Statesman |
| One can not be an AMERICAn by going about saying that one is an AMERICAn. It is necessary to feel AMERICA, like AMERICA, love AMERICA and then work. | Georgia O'Keeffe | American painter |
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