American people Quote by Frederick Douglass

“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

“It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted…

— Henry James

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

— Historica Press

“If it's by an American it's certain to be filth. That's all they write about.”

— Roald Dahl

“I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great…

— Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“Americans are being poisoned, all in the name of profit, producing a weak-minded race of people who are given to lust and desire.”

— Lynn Cullen

“Let us honestly state the facts. Our America has a bad name for superficialness. Great men, great nations have not been boasters and buffoons,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“An argument ensued about abundance, leisure, work, nature, and what a second girl kept calling 'the American way.' When I asked her what she…

— David Guterson

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

— David H. Finnie

“America is a reactionary society which makes us prone and vulnerable to Hegelian dialectic style manipulation. I’m more concerned about the adversaries within our…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“there seems an atmosphere everywhere these days in America, a malevolent vibration in the air, every citizen so quick to righteous rage, some tribal…

— Nickolas Butler

“...the danger that American society as a whole will over-esteem intellect or assign it such a transcendent value as to displace other legitimate values…

— Richard Hofstadter