Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore VidalTags: politics america hope elections vote american-ts americans educated-voters political-education
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
Mark TwainTags: america corruption government congress
the greatest Americans
have not been born yet
they are waiting patiently
for the past to die
Tags: insightful america americans
Everybody's serious but me.
Allen GinsbergTags: america
America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
Allen GinsbergTags: america
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.
Franklin D. RooseveltTags: humor america united-states usa proportion
(Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)
"How do you find America?"
"Turn left at Greenland.
Tags: humor america geography beatles media wordplay greenland
America does not know the difference between money and sex. It treats sex like money because it treats sex as a medium of exchange, and it treats money like sex because it expects its money to get pregnant and reproduce.
Peter KreeftIn the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
Barack ObamaIn thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky — her grand old woods — her fertile fields — her beautiful rivers — her mighty lakes, and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked, my joy is soon turned to mourning. When I remember that all is cursed with the infernal actions of slaveholding, robbery and wrong, — when I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten, and that her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.
Frederick DouglassTags: america curse wrong disregard loathing robbery slaveholding
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