America is a place where Jewish merchants sell Zen love beads to agnostics for Christmas. – John Burton Brimer
The metaphor of the melting pot is unfortunate and misleading. A more accurate analogy would be a salad bowl, for, though the salad is an entity, the lettuce can still be distinguished from the chicory, the tomatoes from the cabbage. – Carl N. Degler
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. – G.K. Chesterton
Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. – Alexis de Tocqueville
Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries. – Saul Bellow
The freedom we have in America is like breathing in an entire open field of fresh air all at once. Sometimes too much air can be stifling. – Amali Ryvre, 2007
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. – H.L. Mencken
Americans like fat books and thin women. – Russell Baker
America… 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. – Hunter S. Thompson
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. – Arnold Toynbee
We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities. – Bill Maher
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. – Hansell B. Duckett
The Constitution of the United States of America, Article V, Section 1: There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia. – Dave Barry
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. – John Updike
States!… Go put your creed into your deed. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
…a “land of the free” that struggles under the incredible burden of limitless taxes and laws; the home of the “brave” who stay silent to keep their jobs and avoid scrutiny by the IRS or the police. – Fred Woodworth, The Match!, No.74
The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values. – William Ralph
Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer. – Dorothy Fuldheim
I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. – Henry James
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat. – Stephen Vincent Benet
