American Character Quotes
19 quotes by 17 authors
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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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My ardent desire is, and my aim has been . . . to comply strictly with all our engagements foreign and domestic; but to keep…
— George Washington
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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
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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
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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
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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.
— Thomas Jefferson
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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
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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
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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
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Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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The fact that so many are willing to accept need-based aid signals a fundamental change in the American character.
— Nicholas Eberstadt
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If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
— Richard M. Nixon
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These American Character Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 19 American Character Quotes as follows: