America Quotes

• "You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt."
  By: Harold Macmillan
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• "The greatest American superstition is a belief in facts."
  By: Hermann Keyserling
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• "The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe."
  By: W.L. George
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• "When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, 'Ours'."
  By: Vine Deloria, Jr.
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• "Whoever wants to know the hearts and minds of America had better learn baseball."
  By: Jacques Barzun
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• "Building a better you is the first step to building a better America."
  By: Ziglar, Zig quotes
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• "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."
  By: Zangwill, Israel quotes
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• "The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself."
  By: Wilson, Woodrow T. quotes
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• "The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others -- this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples."
  By: Will, George F. quotes
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• "Their manners, speech, dress, friendships, -- the freshness and candor of their physiognomy -- the picturesque looseness of their carriage -- their deathless attachment to freedom -- their aversion to anything indecorous or soft or mean -- the practical acknowledgment of the citizens of one state by the citizens of all other states -- the fierceness of their roused resentment -- their curiosity and welcome of novelty -- their self-esteem and wonderful sympathy -- their susceptibility to a slight -- the air they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors -- the fluency of their speech -- their delight in music, a sure symptom of manly tenderness and native elegance of soul -- their good temper and open-handedness -- the terrible significance of their elections, the President's taking off his hat to them, not they to him -- these too are unrhymed poetry. It awaits the gigantic and generous treatment worthy of it."
  By: Whitman, Walt quotes
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• "It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it. Everybody has their own America, and then they have the pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see."
  By: Warhol, Andy quotes
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• "Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing."
  By: Vonnegut Jr., Kurt quotes
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• "There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American."
  By: Twain, Mark quotes
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• "America: It's like Britain, only with buttons."
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• "I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful. On balance I prefer the Arabs."
  By: Stark, Freya quotes
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• "In America everything's about who's number one today."
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