American Civilization Quotes
- The character of Anglo-American civilization . . . is the product . . . of two perfectly distinct elements that elsewhere have often made war… — Alexis de Tocqueville
- The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool… — Raymond Chandler
- I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not falter. I know… — Sullivan Ballou
- Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others. — William Jennings Bryan
- We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their… — Tom Tancredo
- To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather than governmental. It… — Franklin D. Roosevelt