I've never been front and centre as an iconic American…

We have to start processing what we're really made of in America. American character is not dead. American integrity and honesty are not dead.…

— Josh Fox

“A half-century later, Mark Twain would say that the gold rush drastically changed the American character, ending the tradition of patient apprenticeships, the gradual…

— Pete Hamill

To watch an American on a beach, or crowding into a subway, or buying a theatre ticket, or sitting at home with his radio…

— Alistair Cooke

By the time [John Adams] came to write his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787 he had as dark a…

— Gordon S. Wood

“Can it be that the ultimate chapter of this new era of democratic freedom is going to be deformed by this growing drift toward…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I think it's a wonderful thing to have African-American characters. Look at life. It's not a white world or a black world; there are…

— Darius McCrary

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

— Richard M. Nixon

I think the level of casualties is secondary... [A]ll the great scholars who have studied American character have come to the conclusion that we…

— Michael A. Ledeen

The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate,…

— Mary McCarthy

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The fact that so many are willing to accept need-based aid signals a fundamental change in the American character.

— Nicholas Eberstadt

“He was an American character, one typical of men of his generation, men who embraced the notion of freedom and individualism and the open…

— Barack Obama

My ardent desire is, and my aim has been, to comply strictly with all our engagements, foreign and domestic, but to keep the United…

— George Washington

There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed.…

— Constance Rourke

“Huck [Finn] and Tom [Sawyer] represent two viable models of the American Character. They exist side by side in every American and every American…

— George Saunders