American character Quote by Richard Nixon

Once the premise is accepted that poverty is never the fault of the poor but the fault of 'society,' or of 'the capitalist system,…

— Henry Hazlitt

I've never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you're painting on a…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

My ardent desire is, and my aim has been, to comply strictly with all our engagements, foreign and domestic, but to keep the United…

— George Washington

“He was an American character, one typical of men of his generation, men who embraced the notion of freedom and individualism and the open…

— Barack Obama

The fact that so many are willing to accept need-based aid signals a fundamental change in the American character.

— Nicholas Eberstadt

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate,…

— Mary McCarthy

I think the level of casualties is secondary... [A]ll the great scholars who have studied American character have come to the conclusion that we…

— Michael A. Ledeen

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

— Richard M. Nixon

I think it's a wonderful thing to have African-American characters. Look at life. It's not a white world or a black world; there are…

— Darius McCrary

“Can it be that the ultimate chapter of this new era of democratic freedom is going to be deformed by this growing drift toward…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

By the time [John Adams] came to write his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787 he had as dark a…

— Gordon S. Wood