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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… — Mary McCarthy
- My ardent desire is, and my aim has been . . . to comply strictly with all our engagements foreign and domestic;… — 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… — Michael Parenti
- To watch an American on a beach or crowding into a subway, or buying a theater ticket, or sitting at home with… — Alistair Cooke
- We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display… — 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… — 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… — Archibald MacLeish
- New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role.… — 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… — Dick Gephardt
- The fact that so many are willing to accept need-based aid signals a fundamental change in the American character. — Nicholas Eberstadt