Famous Quotes about America (182 Quotations)

America is just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.

America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft that's 5000 millimeters off fitting properly, and two bad ball-bearings, and still runs. We're in that kind of situation. We can have substantial parts of the population committing suicide, and still run and look fairly good.

America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.

America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically more of an American than his parents. Americans regard children as what Mr. Hudson in ''Upstairs, Downstairs'' called ''betters.'' Aping their betters, American adults do their best to turn themselves into children. Puerility exercises droit de seigneur everywhere.

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.

America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves and so on. We're here to accommodate. Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing.

America is, therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's history shall reveal itself. It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of Old Europe.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

America once had the clarity of the pioneer ax.

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.