American Character Quotes

19 quotes by 17 authors

The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a… — Mary McCarthy
My ardent desire is, and my aim has been . . . to comply strictly with all our engagements foreign and domestic; but to keep… — George Washington
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 in the American… — Michael Parenti
To watch an American on a beach or crowding into a subway, or buying a theater ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on,… — Alistair Cooke
We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what… — Woodrow Wilson
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate. — Thomas Jefferson
America is a land of healthy appetites. It is not in the American character to live in order to eat. Rather, the reverse is true.… — Ludwig Bemelmans
The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens.… — Archibald MacLeish
New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these pressures… — Vance Packard
Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with common sense and… — Dick Gephardt
The fact that so many are willing to accept need-based aid signals a fundamental change in the American character. — Nicholas Eberstadt
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. — Richard M. Nixon
We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That… — Marco Rubio
Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and… — Hunter S. Thompson
It is Nixon himself who represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character that almost every country in the world has… — Hunter S. Thompson
In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men… — Theodore Roosevelt
One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue… — John Wells
The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a… — Mary McCarthy

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