Badges Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would…

— Bill Bryson

The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are. The American…

— Julius Evola

The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there,…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

I think Americans today look at the moon and think of it like apple pie or Coca-Cola. It's American. We planted our flag there.…

— Lily Koppel

I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We're talking a very cultivated people, but I found as cultivated as they were, they were uninformed about the personages who weren't American. They…

— Sergio Leone

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.

— Neal Stephenson

It would seem evident, therefore, that the secret of the American short story was the treatment of characteristic American life, with absolute knowledge of…

— Bret Harte

In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined…

— Albert Bushnell Hart

It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery.

— Howard Carter

We [Americans] choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own.

— Ralph Peters

The American identity is mind-bogglingly various.

— Ben Fountain