Unquestionably, there is progress...

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

--H. L. Mencken

Too many of us look upon Americans...

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

--Albert Einstein

The genius of you Americans is that...

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them [which] we are missing.

--Gamel Abd Al-Nasser

Let the word go forth from this time...

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans--born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

--John Fitzgerald Kennedy

If you think the United States has stood still...

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

--Richard M. Nixon

An asylum for the sane...

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

--Anonymous

America is the only contry that went...

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

--Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom; A Book of Quotations

America is the country where...

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar, and use it up in two weeks.

--Anonymous