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Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
Prejudice
William Dean Howells

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What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
Tragedies
William Dean Howells

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American public opinion is like an ocean -- it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
Public Opinion
Hubert H. Humphrey

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American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.
America
Pico Iyer

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I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
America
Samuel Johnson

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Solitude is un-American.
Solitude
Erica Jong

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The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.
Humor
Ronald Knox

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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
Literature
Sinclair Lewis

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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
New World
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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To me Americanism means an imperative duty to be nobler than the rest of the world.
America
Meyer London

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There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.
Libraries
Thomas L. Masson

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It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.
Isolation
Henry Miller

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The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.
Youth
Henry Miller

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.
Politicians and Politics
George J. Mitchell

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An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Austin O'Malley

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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
Nationalities and Nationalism
V. S. Pritchett

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While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Past
Ronald Reagan

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Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf.
Taxes and Taxation
Will Rogers

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The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
Taxes and Taxation
Will Rogers

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The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
Memory
Will Rogers

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This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
America
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The American people abhor a vacuum.
America
Theodore Roosevelt

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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Parents and Parenting
Gloria Steinem

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I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
Speakers and Speaking
Adlai E. Stevenson

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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
Survival
Adlai E. Stevenson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun