America Quotes

• "Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man's ken now are but poor-mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and cliché-shouting publicity agents. Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance, ignorance bringing them nearer to death, but nearness to death no nearer to God."
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• "Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, naïve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles."
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• "America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft that's 5000 millimeters off fitting properly, and two bad ball-bearings, and still runs. We're in that kind of situation. We can have substantial parts of the population committing suicide, and still run and look fairly good."
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• "America, America, God shed His grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea."
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• "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."
  By: Winston Churchill
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• "Laughter is America's most important export."
  By: Walt Disney
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• "America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are complete lunatics, and every single one of us is secretly in show business. Isn’t that fabulous?"
  By: Tom Robbins (Wild Ducks Flying Backward)
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• "The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried this device to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication."
  By: Somerset Maugham (Cakes and Ale)
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• "The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying,The trouble with this country is..."
  By: Sinclair Lewis
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• "The American success formula is first to get a home of your own, then to get a car of your own so you don’t have to stay in that home of your own."
  By: Sam Levenson (In one Era and Out the other)
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• "The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance, they invented algebra. And this is why we have to go to war with Saddam Hussein this minute and bomb the shish kebab out of him before he invents trig and chemistry and the whole of America flunks high school."
  By: P. J. O'Rourke (Give War a Chance)
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• "West Germans are tall, pink, pert and orthodontically corrected, with hands, teeth and hair as clean as their clothes and clothes as sharp as their looks. Except for the fact that they all speak English pretty well, they're indistinguishable from Americans."
  By: P. J. O'Rourke (Give War a Chance)
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• "Each American embassy comes with two permanent features – a giant anti-American demonstration and a giant line for American visas. Most demonstrators spend half their time burning Old Glory and the other half waiting for green cards."
  By: P. J. O'Rourke (Holidays in Hell)
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• "This country is so urbanized we think low-fat milk comes from cows on Nutri/System weight-loss plans."
  By: P. J. O'Rourke (Parliament of Whores)
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• "Kosovo certainly taught the world a lesson. Wherever there’s suffering, injustice, and oppression, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it’s happening."
  By: P. J. O'Rourke (Peace Kills)
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• "America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don’t think that way. We don’t think much at all, thank God. Start thinking and pretty soon you get ideas, and then you get idealism, and the next thing you know you’ve got ideology, with millions dead in concentration camps and gulags."
  By: P. J. O'Rourke (Peace Kills)
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