Against Quote by Kathleen Troia McFarland

Americans seem to be living in a state of fear about the world, one that just keeps intensifying. I mean, look at our cars…

— Steve Almond

We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over…

— Emma Goldman

This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.

— Barbara Kingsolver

You know, nobody likes to see innocent people die. Nobody wants to turn on their TV on a daily basis and see havoc wrought…

— George W. Bush

We have determined enemies who will use any means available to take the lives of as many Americans as possible. They cheered when the…

— Bill Frist

When you see what goes on in Iraq on a daily basis - more people dying in car bombings - you almost brush it…

— Richard Shepard

America has entered a great struggle that tests our strength, and even more our resolve. Our nation is patient and steadfast. We continue to…

— George W. Bush

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for…

— George W. Bush

America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago

— Tommy Franks

We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.

— John Phillips

Americans, we passionately believe, are a humane people. We showed that in restoring wounded economies abroad after World War II, even those of our…

— Anthony Lewis

We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.

— Sydney Schanberg