Quotes about america

"America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick."

Abish, Walter on america
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"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."

Adams, Henry Brooks on america   

"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."

Adams, John on america   

"Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly."

Arnold, Matthew on america   

"We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans."

Askew, Ruben on america
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"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."

Asquith, Margot on america
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"The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth."

Auden, W. H. on america   

"God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich."

Auden, W. H. on america   

"America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land."

Bailey, Philip James on america   

"Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field."

Baldwin, James on america   

"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..."

Ballard, J. G. on america
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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."

Barrymore, John on america
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"America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco."

Bartholdi, Frederic Auguste on america
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"America, America, God shed His grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea."

Bates, Katherine Lee on america   

"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."

Baudrillard, Jean on america   

"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."

Baudrillard, Jean on america
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"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."

Beecher, Henry Ward on america   

"It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe."

Beveridge, Albert J. on america   

"The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America."

Bloom, Allan on america   

"Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us."

Boorstin, Daniel J. on america
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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."

Boorstin, Daniel J. on america   

"America is a land where men govern, but women rule."

Brown, John Mason on america
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"America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got."

Bunch, Charlotte on america
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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."

Burke, Edmund on america   

"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."

Burke, Edmund on america   

"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers."

Burroughs, William S. on america   

"America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting."

Burroughs, William S. on america
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"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."

Butler, Nicholas on america   

"America is the best half-educated country in the world."

Butler, Nicholas on america
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"America is a model of force and freedom and moderation -- with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people."

Byron, Lord on america
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"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."

Byron, Lord on america   

"The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt."

Chandler, Raymond on america
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"I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President."

Chaplin, Charlie on america
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"America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man."

Chase, Ilka on america   

"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."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on america
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"The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself."

Ciardi, John on america
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"America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization."

Clemenceau, Georges on america
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"The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism."

Coolidge, Calvin on america   

"At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on america
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"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."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on america
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