America – 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.
America - Americans Quotes
I have often remarked in the United States that it is not easy to make a man understand that his presence may be dispensed with; hints will not always suffice to shake him off. I contradict an American at every word he says, or show him that his conversation bores me; he instantly labors with […]
The twin American desire to dominate and to be seen as entirely innocent at the same time had led to the casual disregard of history and all its lessons. We now see ourselves as the one indispensable nation
We’d been riding the crest of a beautiful wave, and if you stand on a high hill in Las Vegas and look West, with just the right eyes, you can see the high water mark where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
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.
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
Until the moment of his (Andrew Carnegie) death, he had remained to millions of his countrymen their prize showpiece of what they liked to think was the real essence of the American experience – the Americanized immigrant, the rugged individual, the self-made man, the Horatio Alger hero, the beneficient philanthropist, the missionary of secular causes, […]
Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed upon, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. It is excellent, we must all allow. Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not keep the country free. It does […]
