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 | You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President 20 likes |
 | When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 17 likes |
 | You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 13 likes |
 | I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 13 likes |
 | In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 10 likes |
 | Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood. — Joseph Stalin, 1879-1953, Soviet leader 8 likes |
 | America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. — Georges Clemenceau, 1841-1929, French Prime Minister 7 likes |
 | America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 6 likes |
 | They say there are about 12 million illegal immigrants in this country. But if you ask a Native American, that number is more like 300 million. — Dave Letterman, 1947-, American TV talk show host 6 likes |
 | There is a special providence for drunkards, fools, and the United States of America. — Otto von Bismarck, 1815-1898, German chancellor 4 likes |
 | I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 4 likes |
 | In case you haven’t noticed, we are now almost as feared and hated all over the world as the Nazis were. — Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007, American writer 4 likes |
 | Half the American people never read a newspaper. Half never vote for President — the same half? — Gore Vidal, 1925-2012, American writer 4 likes |
 | There’s America, there’s the South, and then there’s Mississippi. — Lyndon Johnson, 1908-1973, American President [1963-1969] 4 likes |
 | Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. — Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013, British Prime Minister 4 likes |
 | A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him? — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 4 likes |
| Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She isn’t. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 4 likes |
 | Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth. — Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007, French intellectual 4 likes |
 | America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 3 likes |
| Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee. — Georges Clemenceau, 1841-1929, French Prime Minister 3 likes |
 | The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity. — Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011, British-American journalist & writer 3 likes |
 | America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 3 likes |
| No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 3 likes |
 | To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race. — Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933, American President [1923-1929] 3 likes |
| The business of America is business. — Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933, American President [1923-1929] 3 likes |
 | Each American embassy comes with two permanent features: a giant anti-American demonstration and a giant line for American visas. — P.J. O’ Rourke, 1947-2022, American columnist & writer 3 likes |
 | My dialogue coach said to do a Texas accent, you lean on the next word, and that was the clue to me. — Michael Caine, 1933-, English actor 3 likes |
 | A 100 years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 3 likes |
| Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. — Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007, American writer 2 likes |
| High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of. — Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007, American writer 2 likes |
| On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. — Gore Vidal, 1925-2012, American writer 2 likes |
| The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since. — Gore Vidal, 1925-2012, American writer 2 likes |
 | I am willing to love all mankind, except an American. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 2 likes |
 | What America needs now is a drink. — Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] 2 likes |
| Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. — Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] 2 likes |
 | America is my country, and Paris is my home town. |
| And so I am an American and I have lived half my life in Paris, not the half that made me but the half in which I made what I made. |
 | In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. |
 | A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. |
 | To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. |
 | If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist |
| Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist |
| Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party. — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist |
 | To some degree every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. |
 | Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram remain inaccessible to this state of mind. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist (Letter to Ezra Pound, 21 December 1948) |
 | It is heresy in America to embrace any way of life except as half of a couple. Solitude is un-American. |
 | The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. |
 | More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist |
 | The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one. |
| America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests. |
 | You can’t write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent. |
 | Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity. |
| The 2016 presidential campaign is the most severe case of mass psychosis since the Salem witch trials of 1692. |
| Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening. |
 | I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls. |
 | Columbus had to leave with madmen to discover America. And see how this madness has taken shape and duration. — André Breton, 1896-1966, French writer, founder of Surrealism |
 | There is much less envy in America than in France. And much less spirit. |
 | An American historian cannot write history without lamenting that Providence did not consult him beforehand. |
 | Too many Republicans treat English as a second language, with Beltway lingo being their native tongue. |
Funny Quotes
 | I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce. — Talleyrand, 1754-1838, French statesman & diplomat 43 likes |
| In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 24 likes |
| The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 18 likes |
| America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked. — Dave Letterman, 1947-, American TV talk show host 6 likes |
 | Un-American, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 3 likes |
 | The metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. — Dave Barry, 1947-, American journalist 3 likes |
| The Democrats said, “We don't know what's wrong with America, but we can fix it.” The Republicans said, “There's nothing wrong with America, and we can fix that.” |
