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Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

—J. Bartlett Brebner

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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

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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

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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

—H. L. Mencken

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Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.

—George Will

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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Americans never quit.

—General Douglas Macarthur

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I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

—Franklin D. Roosevelt

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How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

—Edith Wharton

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I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

—Daniel Webster

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The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it.

—Alexis de Tocqueville

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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

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In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.

—Unknown

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This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

—Jeffery F. Chamberlain

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I'm not going to quit. Why should I quit? This country is worth fighting for.

—Jack Kerouac

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