Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein
Americans and British have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator,' we say 'lift' ... they say 'President,' we say 'stupid psychopathic git.'
Alexis Sayle
Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.
Alf Landon
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Arnold Bennett
The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide.
Ben Bova
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
Benjamin Harrison
We can now prove that large numbers of Americans are dying from sitting on their behinds.
Bruce B. Dan
Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
Casey Stengel
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
Charles De Gaulle
For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business.
D. W. Brogan
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