Backwards Quote by Mark Twain

Much of how Americans have always understood their history, culture, and identity depends on positioning Europe as the 'other,' as that 'old world' against…

— Linda Colley

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

— Margaret Thatcher

Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn…

— Timothy D. Snyder

“Americans today are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism in the twentieth century. One advantage is…

— Timothy Snyder

If we think we're a nation with great ideas, and a nation that wants to make the world a better place, let's commit ourselves…

— Billy Bragg

I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account.

— Raymond Barre

We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because…

— Neil Sheehan

We have a deep sense of American equality and opportunity, and that informs the way in which we brought our American power to the…

— Daniel Fried

The American people want to pay attention to serious ideas again. Our founding was built by people who were political philosophers, and we need…

— Dave Brat

What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.

— Peter Mandelson

We go to Europe to be Americanized.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.

— Jean-Luc Godard