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America Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the courts. No one can be sure…
- Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.
- No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.
- The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English.
- Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.
- Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
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- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon