Quotes About Americans

In general, Americans are not very good at nation-building and not very good colonialists.

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

Understanding the Constitution is of critical importance for all Americans, for it is this brief document that protects our liberties and, by keeping our nation from falling into chaos, allows us to get on with our lives. Nothing matters so much as this.

simon-pure American Nationalism, America First, America for Americans, and let us

That was one of Monck's troubles; the other was at the opposite end of the social scale—the Communists. They were making all the difficulties they could for Socialists, as well as for Americans; they wanted everything to fail, not merely with capitalism, but also with Social Democracy, in order that the workers might be driven to Communism.

It is clear, for example, that many Americans did not like the idea of avant-garde art, especially in relation to women's fashion. Many people were particularly indignant about what seemed to them the deliberate obliteration of sexual attractiveness, which they identified with the tightwaisted dress and the hourglass figure.

When ideologues cannot persuade Americans to support their agenda under the existing political rules and traditions of the nation, they seek to alter them for their own advantage—often by redefining citizenship as something never envisioned by the Founders.

how putting global concerns above national interests insidiously erodes the financial health, freedoms, and safety of Americans. In blunter terms, when American elites feel their first concerns are with the world community abroad rather than with the interests of their own countrymen, there are consequences for American citizens.

They were so...larger than life, these Yanks, with their ready smiles and booming voices. And their gratitude....She'd lost track of the times an American had hugged her so tightly she'd come off her feet.

If more Americans were to learn of the large body of research showing that higher inequality in rich countries isn't just unfair but actually slows down economic growth—by a fifth since the 1980s, according to a 2014 study by the OECD—the remarkably strong support for Robin Hoodism might get even stronger.

Marx famously called religion the opium of the people, and when Lenin founded the Soviet Union, he agreed, saying it was "used for the…stupefaction of the working class." But neither man had ever been to the United States, to see that for Americans it was as much or more a stimulant and hallucinogen than a stupefying opiate.

Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), funded over the years by the familiar (Koch, Olin, Scaife) right-wing foundations.

It's correct to say that the financial meltdown of 2008 resulted from too much deregulation, too many arcane Wall Street innovations, and some fraud. But that's just one way of explaining it, the one that comfortingly focuses all blame on government and a small class of the rich and powerful and deceitful. The deeper causes were more widespread and unconscious, the fantastical wishfulness affecting at least a large minority of Americans, maybe a majority.

The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

In truth, the natural state of humanity was chaos. The Americans had just managed to hold it at bay over most of their short history.

Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from the Americans.

There were three major triggers that led to the end of WWI: (1) The Russian Revolution (2) Americans entering the war in 1917 (3) The failure of Germany's Spring Offensive

ACCESS DENIED For Reasons of National Security" is a US federal legal ruling that affects all Americans and her allies from adjudicating against criminal politicians.

Whatever power struggle your nation had with other Asian nations—most of it the fallout of Western imperialism and the Cold War—is steamrolled flat by Americans who don't know the difference.

Most remarkably, Americans now considered the danger of surveillance of greater concern than the danger of terrorism:

It was as if, from 1967 on, for several years, two different tribes of Americans experienced the same outward events but experienced them as two quite different realities.

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."

COFFEE. — This is probably the favorite stimulant of most Americans... Coffee has no actual food value, except for a small quantity of sugar and protein which may be dissolved form it. It should be regarded as a stimulant, therefore, not as a true food.

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