Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign language
Dave Barry
When good Americans die they go to Paris
Oscar Wilde
Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
General George S. Patton
American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.
Dave Barry
Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.
Dwight David Eisenhower
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
Harry S Truman
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.
Howard Zinn
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich
Robert Frost
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms
James Madison
The American people, taken one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the middle ages
Henry Louis Mencken
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore Vidal
If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy
Marquis De Lafayette
If the American dream is for Americans only, it will remain our dream and never be our destiny
Rene de Visme Williamson
Americans have always been eager for travel, that being how they got to the New World in the first place.
Otto Friedrich
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles
Paul Fussell