More quotations tagged with “americans”
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.
—Henry James
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
—Henry David Thoreau
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
—H. L. Mencken
Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
—George Will
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
—George Bernard Shaw