Antiques Quote by Jonathan Gash

Today, the greatest misconception of mankind is that America is the land of the free.

— Roozbeh Aranipour

“I believe it went like this—and stop me if I’m wrong, Mousey: ‘Listen, we may not be our own continent and everything, but we…

— Elle Lothlorien

“Americans abroad have long been accused of such blinging arrogance and display. I find the charge generally unfair. Arrogance is incorrectly ascribed to what…

— Charles Krauthammer

“The ongoing changes in the distribution of global power and mounting global strife make it all the more imperative that America not retreat into…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“There's nothing more frightening to me than a character who thinks he knows what a real American is – mainly because it generally turns…

— Donald Hamilton

“No other society in the history of the world has searched so long for a meaningful cultural identity and failed in its quest as…

— Lester D. Langley

“Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for.”

— Joshua Ferris

“We would parachute in like typical asshole Americans and be completely clueless about what kind of trip we were actually on, asking questions like,…

— Chelsea Handler

“it is difficult to understand that not everyone in the world wants to be an American.”

— Bruce Cumings

“We were all patriotic, but I can’t even conceive of what else we would’ve been, because our entire experience was domestic, interior, American. We”

— Suzy Hansen

“Among other things, my own experience has led me to believe that American naivete can sometimes be more than it seems; it can hide…

— Roberto Bolaño

“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