Americans Quotes

Pennsylvania the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

~ J. J. Ingalls

Stormy husky brawling City of the Big Shoulders.

~ Carl Sandburg

I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.

~ Willard D. Vandiver

Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

~ J. K. Galbraith

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

~ Saul Bellow

Washington is a city of people doing badly what shouldn't be done at all.

~ Robert H. Gurney

America and its demons Europe and its ghosts.

~ Le Monde

Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense.

~ Sarah Palin

...Americans didn’t stick to cities, which makes us different from the people in other industrialized countries. We no sooner arrived in town, turning those towns into great mid-century metropolises, than we decided to take off for the green world beyond, so that by the 1970 Census, we had become the first suburban nation in the history of the world. And Detroit led the way, with a population curve up and down just like everywhere else, but with its urban decline a lot steeper over the past sixty years—so typical a place that it only looks like an exception.

~ Jerry Herron

In America, they make a lot of fuss over little things.

~ Khushwant Singh