Quotes About Americans

This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.

Never criticize Americans. They have the best taste that money can buy.

Americans spend 6 billion hours a year filling out their tax reforms.

Most Americans agree that federal money, their tax money shouldn't be used to help pay for abortions.

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

I think I'll give them another chance. Americans deserve another chance with my music.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.

Patience is a virtue, and Americans have it in short supply.

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.

Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?

Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it.

More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy.

Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics.

I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.

I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.

The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

The thing about Americans," she said, "is that you're very concerned about everything all the time.