To watch an American on a beach, or crowding into a subway, or buying a theatre ticket, or sitting at home with… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
By the time [John Adams] came to write his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787 he had as… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
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;… — Darius McCrary Copy Share Image
I think the level of casualties is secondary... [A]ll the great scholars who have studied American character have come to the conclusion… — Michael A. Ledeen Copy Share Image
The fact that so many are willing to accept need-based aid signals a fundamental change in the American character. — Nicholas Eberstadt Copy Share Image
My ardent desire is, and my aim has been, to comply strictly with all our engagements, foreign and domestic, but to keep… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I've never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you're painting… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has… — Constance Rourke Copy Share Image
“Huck [Finn] and Tom [Sawyer] represent two viable models of the American Character. They exist side by side in every American and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I'm asking the American people to rise above the noise and the clutter of our broken politics. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . .… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role.… — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
The entitlement mentality so carefully cultivated by liberal academics, politicians, clergymen, and journalists continues to corrode the self-sufficiency that once defined the… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
The left and Democrats are relying on the decline the American character that left-wing policies have produced. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The strongest streak in the American character is a fierce pragmatism that mistrust blind ideology of every stripe and insists on finding… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin,... — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
For the last fifty years we've been supporting right-wing governments, and that is a puzzlement to me...I don't understand what there is… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
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