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Quotes about america
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America is a land where men govern, but women rule. (Coyote Peter)
America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got. (Coyote Peter)
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. (Coyote Peter)
Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners. (Coyote Peter)
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America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers. (Coyote Peter)
America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting. (Coyote Peter)
The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the problems that will confront the world tomorrow. (Coyote Peter)
America is the best half-educated country in the world. (Coyote Peter)
The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt. (Coyote Peter)
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. (Coyote Peter)
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. (Coyote Peter)
America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. (Coyote Peter)
The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism. (Coyote Peter)
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks. (Coyote Peter)
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe. (Coyote Peter)
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room. (Coyote Peter)
Americans usually believe that nothing is impossible. (Coyote Peter)
There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition. (Coyote Peter)
The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad. (Coyote Peter)
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being. (Coyote Peter)
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. (Coyote Peter)
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure. (Coyote Peter)
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. (Coyote Peter)
I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem -- and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? (Coyote Peter)
Only Americans can hurt America. (Coyote Peter)
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