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| One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude | | Carl Sandburg | |
| One third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two thirds provide | | Will Rogers | |
| Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. | | George Washington | |
| Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe | | George Washington | |
| Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you come into a room and sit down with them, so often ask you, "What do you do?" And, being American, many's the time I've almost | | Arthur Miller | |
| Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America--not on the battlefields of Vietnam. | | Marshall McLuhan | |
| The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret. | | Fred Allen | |
| The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax | | Thomas Paine | |
| The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant | | John Steinbeck | |
| The American people, taken one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the middle ages | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| The American, in other words, thinks that the sinner has no rights that any one is bound to respect, and he is prone to mistake an unsupported charge of sinning, provided it be made violently enough, for actual proof and confession | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by decency and proprie | | George Washington | |
| The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind | | Thomas Paine | |
| The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way | | Henry David Thoreau | |
| The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags. | | Henry Miller | |
| The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock? | | P. J. O'Rourke | |
| The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. | | Gore Vidal | |
| The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. | | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | |
| The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic and a killer | | D.H. Lawrence | |
