American character Quote by Mona Charen

Americans, endowed by their solicitous government with an ever-expanding array of entitlements, now have the whiny mentality that an entitlement culture breeds.

— George F Will

“It is this entitlement mentality that is eroding the foundations this country was built upon. The "entitlement mentality" is bringing down the American empire…

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

“Entitlement closes in upon itself in a kind of narcissistic bubble, distorting anything and everything in such a way as to reinforce itself. People…

— Mark Manson

“Entitlement is laziness wrapped up in selfishness.”

— Ashley Jade

Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality. And the…

— Dennis Prager

“Entitlement closes in upon itself in a kind of narcissistic bubble, distorting anything and everything in such a way as to reinforce itself.”

— Mark Manson

That entitlement and the sort of - I think that's just perennial. I just think that's constant. And it's part of the American experience…

— Michael Penn

“embodied the image of self-reliance, fair-play, and decency that are cited to this day as the American self-image, too often with scant accuracy or…

— Joseph Befumo

“This sense of entitlement is one reason they are continually angry at “experts” and especially at “elitists,” a word that in modern American usage…

— Thomas M. Nichols

If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

— P. J. O'Rourke

America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.

— Maurice Saatchi