Americans Quotes
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So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, "What if?"
Senator John Kerry
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
Bill Lovejoy
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I wonder when someone will grow the testicles to say to americans everywhere, `Enough with the self-medicating.` Seriously. What ever happened to dealing with life? Life is pain. Life is inconvenience. Life is a tall, cool glass of "F**k You". Step away f...
Anthony Beal
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The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
Henry David Thoreau
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In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such m...
Theodore Roosevelt
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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn`t block traffic.
Dan Rather
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How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ``American`` before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?
Edith Wharton
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The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.
Robertson Davies
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It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them.
Henry James
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Sitting at the table doesn`t make you a diner, unless you eat some of what`s on that plate. Being here in America doesn`t make you an American. Being born here in America doesn`t make you an American.
Malcolm X
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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.
Abdul Jalil
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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It`s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them.
Lily Tomlin
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An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven`t been done before.
Mark Twain
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Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein
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The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
John Kennedy
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
A. Alvarez
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George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping?
Jeff Melvoin
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Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
Abdul Sattar
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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
George Shaw
