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| America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks. | John Barrymore | 1882-1942, American Actor |
| The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. | John Ciardi | 1916-1986, American Teacher, Poet, Writer |
| Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. this is not the case. | John F. Kennedy | 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA |
| Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. | John Gunther | |
| America is a land where men govern, but women rule. | John Mason Brown | 1800-1859, American Militant Abolitionist |
| Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be... | John Maynard Keynes | 1883-1946, British Economist |
| This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me. | John Steinbeck | 1902-1968, American Author |
| America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. | John Updike | 1932-, American Novelist, Critic |
| America, America, God shed His grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea. | Katherine Lee Bates | 1859-1921, American Author |
| Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom. | King George III | 1738-1820, King of Great Britain and Ireland (1760--1820) |
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| Americans usually believe that nothing is impossible. | Lawrence S. Eagleburger | |
| America and its demons, Europe and its ghost. | Le Monde | |
| To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history. | Leslie Fiedler | 1917-, American Literary Critic, educator |
| America is a model of force and freedom and moderation -- with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people. | Lord Byron | 1788-1824, British Poet |
| I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor. | Lord Byron | 1788-1824, British Poet |
| The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. | Louis Kronenberger | |
| For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground. | Lyndon B. Johnson | 1908-1973, Thirty-sixth President of the USA |
| Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American. | Malcolm X | 1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist |
| Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. | Margaret Thatcher | 1925-, British Stateswoman, Prime Minister (1979-90) |
| It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die. | Margot Asquith | 1864-1945, British Socialite |
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| In Boston they ask, ''How much does he know?'' In New York, ''How much is he worth?'' In Philadelphia, ''Who were his parents?'' | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labelled as ''American.'' | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air. | Mary Mccarthy | 1912-1989, American Author, Critic |
| Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. | Matthew Arnold | 1822-1888, British Poet, Critic |
| To me Americanism means an imperative duty to be nobler than the rest of the world. | Meyer London | |
| I have a great fear for the moral will of Americans if it takes more than a week to achieve the results. | Michael S. Harper | |
| America is the best half-educated country in the world. | Nicholas Butler | 1862-1947, American Educationist |
| The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the problems that will confront the world tomorrow. | Nicholas Butler | 1862-1947, American Educationist |
| To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power. | Norman Thomas | 1884-1968, American Socialist Leader |
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| Good Americans when they die, go to Paris. | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet |
| The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left. | Orson Welles | 1915-1985, American Film Maker |
| America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people. | Phil Gramm | |
| America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land. | Philip James Bailey | 1816-1902, British Poet |
| American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams. | Pico Iyer | Travel Writer |
| I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
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| In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| If you think the United States has stood still, who built The largest shopping centre in the world? | Richard M. Nixon | 1913-1994, Thirty-seventh President of the USA |
| America: It's like Britain, only with buttons. | Ringo Starr | 1940-, The Beatles Pop Group, on Drums |
| If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia. | Robert Frost | 1875-1963, American Poet |
| America once had the clarity of the pioneer ax. | Robert Osborne | |
| I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything. | Robert Penn Warren | 1905-1989, American Writer, Poet |
| Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause. | Ronald Reagan | 1911-, Fortieth President of the USA, Actor |
| It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available. | Ronald Reagan | 1911-, Fortieth President of the USA, Actor |
| We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans. | Ruben Askew | |
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