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“It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“Nothing will avail to offset this virus which is poisoning the whole world. America is the very incarnation of doom. She will drag the whole world down to the bottomless pit.” Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
“The doctrine of interest rightly understood is not, then, new, but amongst the Americans of our time it finds universal acceptance: it has become popular there; you may trace it at the bottom of all their actions, you will remark it in all they say.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
“But America is too great for small dreams.” Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address
“America will never be whole as long as the right to life granted by our Creator is denied to the unborn.” Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address
“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.” Thomas Paine, Common Sense
“America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion, and every movement seems an improvement.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
“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 F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address
“Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.” Barack Obama, Inaugural Address
“the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.” Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
“To make America the greatest is my goal, So I beat the Russians, and I beat the Pole, and for the USA won the Medal of Gold. Italians said, 'You're Greater than the Cassius of Old.'” Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly
“America is like that. It's not good growing country for gods. They don't grow well here. They're like avocados trying to grow in wild rice country. ” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“Americans learn only from catastrophes and not from experience.” Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography
“Nearly every American hungers to move.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.” Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
“I know no country in which there is so little true independence of mind and freedom of discussion as in America.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
“Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
“They say . . . that when good Americans die they go to Paris.” Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
“The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.” George Carlin, Napalm & Silly Putty
“there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator
“When the American republics begin to degenerate it will be easy to verify the truth of this observation, by remarking whether the number of political impeachments augments.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
“It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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