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Quotes about america
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If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi". (Coyote Peter)
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. (Coyote Peter)
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. (Coyote Peter)
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them. (Coyote Peter)
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If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. (Coyote Peter)
I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America. (Coyote Peter)
America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies. (Coyote Peter)
The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other. (Coyote Peter)
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day . . . is the one day that is purely American. (Coyote Peter)
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. (Coyote Peter)
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. (Coyote Peter)
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans. (Coyote Peter)
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. (Coyote Peter)
God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. (Coyote Peter)
America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land. (Coyote Peter)
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. (Coyote Peter)
America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks. (Coyote Peter)
America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco. (Coyote Peter)
America, America, God shed His grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea. (Coyote Peter)
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. (Coyote Peter)
Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society. (Coyote Peter)
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance. (Coyote Peter)
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. (Coyote Peter)
The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America. (Coyote Peter)
The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises. (Coyote Peter)
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