“The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.”
“The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.”
“American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.”
“We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans.”
“At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.”
“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
“If you think the United States has stood still, who built The largest shopping center in the world?”
“The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.”
“Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.”
“It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.”
“Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.”
“I have a great fear for the moral will of Americans if it takes more than a week to achieve the results.”
“I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.”
“America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.”
“America is a model of force and freedom and moderation -- with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.”
“I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem -- and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?”
“America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.”
“The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.”
“Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be...”
“For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.”
“There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.”
“The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.”
“No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.”
“I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy.”
“Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.”
“In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.”
“America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.”
“Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.”
“Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.”
“On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”