Quotes about Americans

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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February. — Joseph Wood Krutch
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles. — George Santayana
America - the best poor man's country in the world. — William Allen
Chicago - a facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade every type of dubiousness. — E. M. Forster
I'm from Indiana the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union. — Thomas R. Marshall
Pennsylvania the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts and Albert Gallatin of Swit — J. J. Ingalls
Stormy husky brawling City of the Big Shoulders. — Carl Sandburg
I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor — Willard D. Vandiver
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. — J. K. Galbraith
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America but the business and administrative centre of American cult — Saul Bellow
Washington is a city of people doing badly what shouldn't be done at all. — Robert H. Gurney
America and its demons Europe and its ghosts. — Le Monde
Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, — Sarah Palin
British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Sp — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
...Americans didn’t stick to cities, which makes us different from the people in other industrialized countries. We no s — Jerry Herron
In America, they make a lot of fuss over little things. — Khushwant Singh, Truth, Love and a Little Malice
The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations. — Rick Renzi