American Quote by Patrick Henry

“Are you an American? No, I am not an American. I am the American.”

— Mark Twain

“Richmond lost his Virginia when he was 1776.”

— Jarod Kintz

“I am an aristocrat," Virginian John Randolph would explain decades after the American Revolution. "I love liberty; I hate equality.”

— Colin Woodard

“Don't you ever just think of yourself as American?”

— Sabrina Vourvoulias

“I’m as American as de Tocqueville.”

— Jarod Kintz

“I'm not an American any more, nor a New Yorker, and even less a European, or a Parisian. I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities,…

— Henry Miller

“Cherokee's American, Ned. It don't get more American than that.”

— Loren D. Estleman

“You may be James the American, or Mary the British, or anything else, but before all that, you are a human.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“One cannot be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“Your American, you wouldn't know if you were up yourself.”

— Peter Carey

“I suppose because we have no ruins and no curiosities,” said Virginia satirically.”

— Oscar Wilde

“You speak very good English for an American.”

— Nico