American Quote by Simon Schama

A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past century, democratically…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

“This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands of European peasants and poor…

— Mary McCarthy

Nineteenth-century American politics were notoriously raucous, with frequent violence in and around elections.

— Jamelle Bouie

“The German Romantics of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries rejected the Atlantic West’s new materialist, individualistic and imperialistic civilization in the name…

— Pankaj Mishra

The political and social processes by which the Western European societies were put in order are not very apparent, have been forgotten, or have…

— Michel Foucault

“Nineteenth-century America was gone; twentieth-century America was alien. “All that I thought American in a true sense is gone, and I see nothing but…

— Edith Wharton

What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be…

— Bernard Bailyn

American prejudices about Europe rarely surface in headlines, but they are real, pervasive, and ingrained.

— Linda Colley

In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist populists and…

— Zephyr Teachout

It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is…

— Julien Benda

“High Europe always played at ethnic contempt because it was High Europe, and so had the strength, the authority, to make the racial rules.…

— Thomas Keneally

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