America Quote by Daniel Bell

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

— Margaret Thatcher

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

— Margaret Thatcher

American prejudices about Europe rarely surface in headlines, but they are real, pervasive, and ingrained.

— Linda Colley

Much of how Americans have always understood their history, culture, and identity depends on positioning Europe as the 'other,' as that 'old world' against…

— Linda Colley

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.

— Francis Parkman

It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the European mind."…

— Isaac Todhunter

America is divided by a great argument about itself. Europe is divided by a great argument about America.

— Timothy Garton Ash

I found it marvelous that the great supporters of America in Europe are, of course, those countries that American consistency and firmness in the…

— John Rhys-Davies

“Three days after a German submarine sank the Lusitania, Wilson addressed an audience of recently naturalized citizens in Philadelphia. "You cannot become thorough Americans",…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr

Like the proverbial elephant in the room, American anti-Europeanism has loomed large for so long that few trouble to notice it.

— Linda Colley

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

— Mark Twain

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

— William Dean Howells