We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it
Dave Barry
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I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson
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American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.
Dave Barry
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
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Americans have different ways of saying things. They say "elevator", we say "lift"... they say "President", we say "stupid psychopathic git.
Alexai Sayle
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To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.
George W. Bush
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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages
Dave Barry
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We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
General George S. Patton
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
George Bernard Shaw
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
E. E. Cummings
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We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.
Mark Twain
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They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.
George W. Bush
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America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes
Ayn Rand
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What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
Carlos Fuentes
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America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
Bruce Jackson
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James Arthur Baldwin
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America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
Jane Addams
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My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain
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