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America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.
-Walter Abish
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As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
-Henry Adams
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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
-John Adams
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks ... It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.
-Samuel Adams
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In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism.
-Spiro T. Agnew
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Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
-Matthew Arnold
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We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans.
-Ruben Askew
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It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.
-Margot Asquith
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The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.
-W. H. Auden
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
-W. H. Auden
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America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
-Philip James Bailey
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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.
-James Baldwin
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It
-J. G. Ballard
interview in M, 1983
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America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
-John Barrymore
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America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco.
-Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
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In America, if you put your mind to it you can have anything you want. You just can't have everything you want.
-Bernard Baruch
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America, America, God shed His grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea.
-Katherine Lee Bates
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What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
-Jean Baudrillard
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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
-Jean Baudrillard
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Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers
-Jean Baudrillard
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
-Robert Benchley
Benchley -- or Else!
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In America there are two classes of travel: first class and with childen.
-Robert Benchley
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It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe.
-Albert J. Beveridge
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The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.
-Allan Bloom
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Books about America
