America

(32 votes)   It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.

Lord Northcliffe

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(32 votes)   Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(31 votes)   America, America, God shed His grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea.

Katherine Lee Bates
1859-1921, American Author

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(31 votes)   If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green. If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don't deserve to survive, and probably won t.

William Faulkner
1897-1962, American Novelist

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(31 votes)   In Boston they ask, ''How much does he know?'' In New York, ''How much is he worth?'' In Philadelphia, ''Who were his parents?''

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(31 votes)   The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(31 votes)   The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

Henry James
1843-1916, American Author

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(30 votes)   America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm-hearted, over-friendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures; its people are travelers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile. The chuckle among the nations of the world.

Edna Ferber
1887-1968, American Author

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(30 votes)   America, where people do not inquire of a stranger, ''What is he?'' But ''What can he do?''

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(30 votes)   Only Americans can hurt America.

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

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(29 votes)   Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.

King George III
1738-1820, King of Great Britain and Ireland (1760--1820)

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(29 votes)   There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.

Umberto Eco
1929-, Italian Novelist and critic

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(28 votes)   I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States.

King George III
1738-1820, King of Great Britain and Ireland (1760--1820)

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(28 votes)   The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(28 votes)   There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as ''American.''

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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