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| The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples | | Walter Lippmann | |
| The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong. | | John Steinbeck | |
| The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr. | | Will Rogers | |
| The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself | | Woodrow T. Wilson | |
| The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. | | Frank Lloyd Wright | |
| The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's. | | Harry S Truman | |
| The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. | | Oscar Levant | |
| The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence. | | Elbert Hubbard | |
| The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill. | | Peter Ustinov | |
| The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ...finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. | | George Washington | |
| The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea | | Max Lerner | |
| The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative. | | Eugene J. McCarthy | |
| The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss-a drafty wench, her temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye. | | E. B. White | |
| The United Sates has much to offer the third world war. | | Ronald Reagan | |
| The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written | | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| The United States has been declared under martial law...All constitutional rights have been suspended. Anyone interfering with the collection of urine samples will be shot. Anyone failing to attend morning school prayer will be shot. The number one enemy of progress is questions. National security is more important than individual rights. Sports broadcasts will proceed as scheduled. Shut up, be happy, obey all orders without question. At last everything is done for you. | | Jello Biafra | |
| The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced | | Frank Zappa | |
| The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobb | | Peter B. Medawar | |
