America

(62 votes)   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.

Edmund Burke
1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman

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(61 votes)   I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

Edith Wharton
1862-1937, American Author

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(57 votes)   America is the best half-educated country in the world.

Nicholas Butler
1862-1947, American Educationist

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(57 votes)   I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

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

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(55 votes)   America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

Arnold Toynbee
1852-1883, British Economic Historian and Social Reformer

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(55 votes)   This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.

John Steinbeck
1902-1968, American Author

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(54 votes)   America is just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

Hunter S. Thompson
1939-, American Journalist

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(52 votes)   America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves and so on. We're here to accommodate. Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing.

Don Delillo
1926-, American Author

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(52 votes)   No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.

Wyndham Lewis
1882-1957, British Author, Painter

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(52 votes)   Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

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

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(50 votes)   America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement. It is to be felt as a dramatic force of energy and vitality. We move; we do not stand still. We have not yet arrived at the stock-taking stage.

Martha Graham
1894-1991, American Dancer, Teacher, and Choreographer

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

William S. Burroughs
1914-1997, American Writer

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(50 votes)   For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

Henry Kissinger
1923-, American Republican Politician, Secretary of State

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(49 votes)   America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.

D. H. Lawrence
1885-1930, British Author

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(49 votes)   America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

Philip James Bailey
1816-1902, British Poet

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