I pray we are still a young and courageous nation, that we have not grown so old and so fat and so prosperous that all we can think about is to sit back with our arms around our money bags. If we choose to do that I have no doubt that the smoldering fires will burst into flame and consume us -- dollars and all.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson - [America]

I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
~ Samuel Johnson - [America]

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
~ Samuel Johnson - [America]

Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. this is not the case.
~ John F. Kennedy - [America]

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be...
~ John Maynard Keynes - [America]

I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States.
~ King George III - [America]

Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.
~ King George III - [America]

America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically more of an American than his parents. Americans regard children as what Mr. Hudson in ''Upstairs, Downstairs'' called ''betters.'' Aping their betters, American adults do their best to turn themselves into children. Puerility exercises droit de seigneur everywhere.
~ Florence King - [America]

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
~ Henry Kissinger - [America]

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
~ Louis Kronenberger - [America]