Quote by Edith Wharton

“[T]wo Americans re-encountering each other after a certain time in a foreign land are supposed to clamber up their nearest lampposts and wait tremblingly…

— Elaine Dundy

“~ “In their secretly nervous hearts, they’ve convinced themselves, poor little delusional narcissists, that their nation is the most powerful that ever was or…

— Tom Robbins

“It had happened again. I had met another American whose generosity, it began to seem to me, gushed out of the spirit of this…

— Peter Jenkins

“Americans were known for a zealous and often immoderate attachment to the United States and all it represented.”

— David H. Finnie

“Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new…

— John F. Kennedy

“if we really care about all Americans, and we must, we have to understand what is happening.”

— Historica Press

“Americans had built themselves a world of speculative pipe dreams. That world was inhabited, not by people who had to be convinced, but by…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“The Americans are an extremely interesting people. They are absolutely reasonable. I think that is their distinguishing characteristic...I assure you there is no nonsense…

— Oscar Wilde

Americans are once again looking outward

— Dan Rather

“What these people were trying to create or re-create here in this new world is beyond me. I can't put myself in their minds…

— Nelson DeMille

“We will always be subjected to these us-versus-them hysteria campaigns as long as people in power seek to divide Americans for their own cynical…

— Arsalan Iftikhar

“Yes, we have much to be seriously concerned about, much that needs to be corrected, improved, or dispensed with. But the vitality and creative…

— David McCullough