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| 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 |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
| There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. | Gilbert K. Chesterton | 1874-1936, British Author |
| On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. | Gore Vidal | 1925-, American Novelist, Critic |
| The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are. | Harold Rosenberg | 1906-1978, American Art Critic, Author |
| As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore. | Henry Brooks Adams | 1838-1918, American Historian |
| It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them. | Henry James | 1843-1916, American Author |
| For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. | Henry Kissinger | 1923-, American Republican Politician, Secretary of State |
| I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots. | Henry Miller | 1891-1980, American Author |
| I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen. | Henry Miller | 1891-1980, American Author |
| The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance. | Henry Ward Beecher | 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer |
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| America is just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. | Hunter S. Thompson | 1939-, American Journalist |
| The biggest difference between ancient Rome and the USA is that in Rome the common man was treated like a dog. In America he sets the tone. This is the first country where the common man could stand erect. | I. F. Stone | 1907-1989, American Author |
| America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man. | Ilka Chase | 1905-, American Author, Actor |
| No... the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you -- he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman. | Israel Zangwill | 1864-1926, British Writer |
| The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam... | J. G. Ballard | 1930-, British Author |
| I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to nought. | Jacques Maritain | 1882-1973, French Philosopher |
| Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society. | Jean Baudrillard | French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer |
| What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world. | Jean Baudrillard | French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer |
| Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television. | Joan Rivers | 1933-, American Comedian, Talk Show Host, Actress |
| I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. | John Adams | 1735-1826, Second President of the USA |
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