Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night? – Jack Kerouac
The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind. – Charles Francis Adams
Sometimes, being an American is a spectator sport. – Terri Guillemets
America is a mistake, a giant mistake. – Sigmund Freud
I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare. – Eldridge Cleaver
America is the best half-educated country in the world. – Nicholas Murray Butler
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through. – Alexis de Tocqueville
Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich. – H.G. Wells
In America, with all its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we do not know yet whether the sun is rising or setting for our country. – Dick Gregory, 1964
We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated. – Walter Lippmann
One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed. – Margaret Mead
Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt. – Eldridge Cleaver
Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty. – Richard Cardinal Cushing
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. – Sinclair Lewis
I always tell myself: You can do better than this. The best slogan I can think of to leave with the U.S.A. would be: We can do and we’ve got to do better than this. – Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904–1991)
America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven mens cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick. – Walter Abish
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that its a bore. – Henry Adams
In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism. – Spiro T. Agnew
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. – Matthew Arnold
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans. – Ruben Askew
