There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

—Edward Dahlberg

About Edward Dahlberg

Edward Dahlberg (July 22, 1900 – February 27, 1977) was an American novelist, essayist, and autobiographer.

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We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.

—Edward Dahlberg

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For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so… That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.

—Robertson Davies

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.

This nation was founded by many men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

—John F. Kennedy

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