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Quotes about america
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To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power. (Brown Bryan)
America is 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. (Brown Bryan)
The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. (Brown Bryan)
Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved. (Brown Bryan)
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America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. (Brown Bryan)
In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In New York, How much is he worth? In Philadelphia, Who were his parents? (Brown Bryan)
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. (Brown Bryan)
On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment -- half- time. (Brown Bryan)
There are no second acts in American lives. (Brown Bryan)
France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter -- it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart. (Brown Bryan)
America is a willingness of the heart. (Brown Bryan)
America, where people do not inquire of a stranger, What is he? But What can he do? (Brown Bryan)
American is a very difficult language mixed with English. (Brown Bryan)
Americans see history as a straight line and themselves standing at the cutting edge of it as representatives for all mankind. They believe in the future as if it were a religion; they believe that there is nothing they cannot accomplish, that solutions wait somewhere for all problems, like brides. (Brown Bryan)
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. (Brown Bryan)
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. (Brown Bryan)
I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything. (Brown Bryan)
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left. (Brown Bryan)
I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast. (Brown Bryan)
A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable -- or at least deserving of support. (Brown Bryan)
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. (Brown Bryan)
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. (Brown Bryan)
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. (Brown Bryan)
There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. (Brown Bryan)
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. (Brown Bryan)
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