America Quotes

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

Henry Miller

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

Henry Miller

Actually we are a vulgar, pushing mob whose passions are easily mobilized by demagogues, newspaper men, religious quacks, agitators and such like. To call this a society of free peoples is blasphemous. What have we to offer the world besides the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?

Henry Miller

The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

Phil Gramm

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be...

John Maynard Keynes

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation -- with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

If you think the United States has stood still, who built The largest shopping center in the world?

Richard Milhous Nixon

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, The trouble with this country is...

Sinclair Lewis