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America and Americans
«It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.»
Author: Anatole Broyard
| About:
America and Americans,
Literature
| Keywords:
American literature, nostalgia, paradoxes, with nostalgia
«It is unacceptable to subject Americans in Moscow to any substance that is not present in the general environment.»
«It does sound odd if by America [he] means 3,000 miles of superhighways, greasy spoons, HoJos, Ramada Inns and the thrill of arriving at sunset only to see the citizens evacuate downtown America and lock their doors for the night.»
Author: Charlotte Curtis
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
arriving, downtown, evacuate, evacuating, greasiest, greasy, inns, spoons, sunset, superhighway, superhighways
«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»
Author: Henry James
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
addict, addicted, addicts, American values, conscious, conspiracies, conspiracy, indisputable, self-conscious
«It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution,
Genius,
Politics
| Keywords:
American Constitution, ample, enduring, fertility, institutions, invention, political institutions, rooted, shelter, The Genius
«It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Death,
Freedom,
Liberty,
War
| Keywords:
Almighty, Almighty God, begun, brethren, bring to, chains, clash, clashed, clashes, clashing, extenuate, extenuates, forbid, gale, gales, gentlemen, god of war, in the north, in vain, North, North A, North by, purchased, resound, resounded, resounding, resounds, sweeps, The Clash, The Field, the matter, the North, The War, to the north, war cry
«It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights - even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
sit down, stand up
«It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
party system, two-party
«It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| About:
America and Americans,
Crime
| Keywords:
considers, Office supplies, organized crime, profitable, quite a, spends, supplies, takes in
