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Americans Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
- With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.
- Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.
- Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and…
- Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within,…
- Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not…
More Americans Quotes
- When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. — Dave Attell
- First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their… — John Avlon
- Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America. — Joe Baca
- Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day. — Joe Baca
- Americans like fat books and thin women. — Russell Baker
- Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a… — Russell Baker
- Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously… — Russell Baker
- What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to… — Russell Baker
- Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that… — James A. Baldwin
- As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say. — Antonio Banderas
- Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans. — Max Baucus
- I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be unable to… — Roseanne Barr