Adventure Quote by Edgar Lee Masters

“An American is insubmissive, lonely, self-educated, and polite.”

— Thornton Wilder

The average American is just like the child in the family.

— Richard M. Nixon

The British have their own conception of what constitutes the typical American. He must have a flavor of the Wild West about him. He…

— B. C. Forbes

Rarely do you meet an American who knows his Wordsworth.

— Alice Eve

The average American has separated his private life from his existence as a member of his society, and leaves that to the specialists in…

— Erich Fromm

An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.

— Marya Mannes

He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own…

— Samuel Johnson

The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument…

— Thomas Jefferson

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.

— Samuel Johnson

At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety…

— Robert A. Heinlein

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.

— Herb Caen