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It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die. – Margot Asquith

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. – W. H. Auden

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land. – Philip James Bailey

Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It – J. G. Ballard

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

America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco. – Frederic Auguste Bartholdi

In America, if you put your mind to it you can have anything you want. You just cant have everything you want. – Bernard Baruch

America, America, God shed His grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea. – Katherine Lee Bates

What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world. – Jean Baudrillard

Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers – Jean Baudrillard

In America there are two classes of travel: first class and with childen. – Robert Benchley

It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe. – Albert J. Beveridge

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America. – Allan Bloom