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| American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm | | Stephen King | |
| American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off | | Will Rogers | |
| Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich | | Robert Frost | |
| Americans can eat garbage, provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup, mustard, chili sauce, Tabasco sauce, cayenne pepper, or any other condiment which destroys the original flavor of the dish | | Henry Miller | |
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| Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war. | | George S. Patton | |
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| And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. | | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | |
| Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. | | Gore Vidal | |
| Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed | | Phyllis Diller | |
| As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality. | | George Washington | |
| Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! | | Thomas Alva Edison | |
| Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised. | | John Kenneth Galbraith | |
| Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling. | | Woodrow T. Wilson | |
| For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity | | Will Rogers | |
| Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. | | Molly Ivins | |
| Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country. | | Norman Cousins | |
| I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph | | Cordell Hull | |
| I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
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