Americans Quotes
We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans
Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.
The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.
America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.
Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.
So, Americans, then. Self-appointed vigilante defenders of the world, kind of like Superman, if Superman was retarded and only fought crime when he felt like it.
I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.
Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naïve, I feel!
Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.
Americans love to hear good things about their bad habits.
The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.
New York lesson 1 - never look lost. Lesson 2 - forget hallowed silences. It's the right of all Americans to talk at the tops of their voices.
A town that has no ceiling price A town of double-talk A town so big men name her twice Like so: 'N'Yawk N'Yawk.'
(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully
Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff. Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they choose to, but I am not to be deceived.
The Americans believe they answered all first questions in 1776: since then they've just been hammering out the practical details.
Sometimes opposites attract, or so they say, but Paloma and Rocío were like arroz and mangú: they didn’t really mix well.
The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.
The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century.
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true and the opposite is probably equally true.
Thou oh my country hast thy foolish ways Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.
That strange blend of the commercial traveller the missionary and the barbarian conqueror which was the American abroad.