Americanism Quotes (page 2)

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• opportunity
• political
• intelligent

American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest. Richard Dawkins

• unique
• country
• founded

Americans continue to rapidly homogenize ourselves into a neutered oblivion. For a country founded on the protection of the unique, we relish our sameness. Lewis Black

• thinking
• never
• americanized

Americans have never really caught on to the idea of sheep. I think they think it's cissy. Hugh Laurie

• work
• broken
• energy

Americans have dissipated their racial energy in an orgy of stone-breaking. In their few years they have broken more stones than did centuries of Egyptians, and they have done their work hysterically, desperately, almost as if they knew that the stones would some day break them. Nathanael West

• perfect
• expectation
• husband

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers. W. Somerset Maugham

• house
• humble
• water

American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroadstations for purposes of genocide, whereas coffee made with an Americanpercolator, such as you find in private houses or in humble luncheonettes, served with eggs and bacon, is delicious, fragrant, goes down like purespring water, and afterwards causes severe palpitations, because one cupcontains more caffeine than four espressos. Umberto Eco

• history
• getting
• american history

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets. Sarah Vowell

• history
• hide
• making

Americans Never Quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We Make History.-John McCain John McCain

• education
• manly
• charming

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm Stephen King

• english
• saying
• england

Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England. Dodie Smith

• hope
• play
• different

Americans tend to play different roles, hoping that somehow they’ll stumble on the right one. Gore Vidal

• aided
• disease
• aide

Americans have a severe disease? worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex. Mikhail Gorbachev

• character
• question
• principle

Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent. Theodore Roosevelt

• women
• men
• liked

American men like their women to have these special teeth... Oliver Reed

• dream
• world
• excuses

Americans had built themselves a world of speculative pipe dreams. That world was inhabited, not by people who had to be convinced, but by people who sought excuses for believing. John Kenneth Galbraith