America

(85 votes)   We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(84 votes)   In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

A. E. Housman
1859-1936, British Poet, Classical Scholar

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(80 votes)   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.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
1922-, American Novelist

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(78 votes)   The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.

Calvin Coolidge
1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA

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(77 votes)   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.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(74 votes)   No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer

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(73 votes)   America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

John Mason Brown
1800-1859, American Militant Abolitionist

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(73 votes)   I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem -- and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Dwight D. Eisenhower
1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA

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(72 votes)   The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.

Archibald Macleish
1892-1982, American Poet

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(67 votes)   A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do -- namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.

Eleanor Roosevelt
1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian

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(67 votes)   America is a willingness of the heart.

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(64 votes)   Actually we are a vulgar, pushing mob whose passions are easily mobilized by demagogues, newspaper men, religious quacks, agitators and such like. To call this a society of free peoples is blasphemous. What have we to offer the world besides the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?

Henry Miller
1891-1980, American Author

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(64 votes)   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.

Raymond Chandler
1888-1959, American Author

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(64 votes)   This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

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(62 votes)   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.

Woodrow T. Wilson
1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA

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