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advice given to Herbert Humphrey by an American Indian from New Mexico · Albert Einstein, quoted in Scientific American, September 2004, page 69 · Alexander Hamilton, P. 217 - A History of the American People by P. Johnson · American · American Greetings Card · American Heart Association Cookbook · American Indian Proverb · American Proverb · Black Elk, Native American · D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature · Dwight D. Eisenhower, From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1963 · Ed Parker, Grandmaster, American Kenpo. · Gary L. Francione, (American Legal Philosopher), Reaction to quote by Joseph Joubert · Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994; American Idealist & Realist Painter and Draughtsman recognized for his collaboration with the · John Archibald Wheeler, American J. of Physics, 1978, 46, 323 · Judie Brown, President, American Life Lobby · Lt. Col. (Ret.) Ralph Peters, Interview in American Heritage · Melvin Belli on the occasion of his getting kicked out of the American Bar Association · Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer III: What is an American? · Native American · Native American Prayer · Native American Proverb · Patrick Henry, a speech before the American Revolution · Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2002 · Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2004 · Thomas Paine, "The American Crisis" · Toni Morrison, American writer (1931-) · Walt Disney, On the inside wall of the American Adventure in Epcot Center · Washington Irving, American writer and poet · William Hung, 2004 American Idol Auditions

"The pursuit of happiness" is an American myth. The ideologies and governments of this century that promised happiness, have left people with more material possessions, but less psychological well-being. Many of the citizens are emotionally bankrupt and unhappy. The demands of life in our current socioeconomic system require that we keep running and running with little or no breaks....Like their parents, most of the young professionals will drift through life racing for the "American Dream", going through very expensive trial-and-error lessons and struggling to achieve happiness and fulfillment.

– Med Jones

American soldiers must be turned into lambs and eating them is tolerated.

– Muammar Qaddafi

But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.

– Geoffrey F. Albert

I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.

– Charles Dickens

If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot.

– John A. Dix

My thinking had been opened up wide in Mecca. I wrote long letters to my friends, in which I tried to convey to them my new insights into the American black man's struggle and his problems as well as the depths of my search for truth and justice. “I've had enough of someone else's propaganda,” I had written to these friends. “I am for truth, no matter who tells it. I am for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I am a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” The American white man's press called me the angriest Negro in America. I wouldn't deny that charge; I spoke exactly as I felt. I believe in anger. I believe it is a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself. I am for violence if non-violence means that we continue postponing or even delaying a solution to the American black man's problem. White man hates to hear anybody, especially a black man, talk about the crime that the white man perpetrated on the black man. But let me remind you that when the white man came into this country, he certainly wasn't demonstrating non-violence.

– malcolm X, Autobiography of malcolm x

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

– H.L. Mencken

Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

– Ayn Rand

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

– Dan Quayle

The American sign of civic progress is to tear down the familiar and erect the monstrous.

– Shane Leslie

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

– John Ciardi

The deepest American dream is not the hunger for money or fame it is the dream of settling down, in peace and freedom and cooperation, in the promised land.

– Scott Russell Sanders

The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.

– Marya Mannes

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.

– George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty

The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

– John F. Kennedy

There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

– Mark Twain

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

– John Fitzgerald Kennedy

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

– Reubin Askew

When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth -- then all Americans are in peril.

– Harry S Truman

Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

– Rachel Blanchard

American leaders created a system that allowed a free distribution of wealth and power. People leave their economic class and become richer regardless of their ethnic or national background. Therefore, despite having more diverse people in our society than any other nation, we have more stable national politics. If our elites try to limit the openness of the socioeconomic system, the system will be corrected in any number of forms including civic unrest. When Bush's administration invaded Iraq and bailed out Wall Street, the people brought in Obama. When Obama bailed out Wall Street again and considered raising the tax on the people, the system brought the Tea Party into power and the ruling party lost control of the Congress. People expressed their anger via peaceful elections.

– Med Jones

This American system of ours . . . call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

– Al Capone

An American is a man with two arms and four wheels.

– A Chinese Child

In US we had our share of civil conflicts driven by economic forces. The European immigrants brought slaves from Africa to use them as cheap labor for farming their lands. The color of the skin is only a rationalization for the continuation of the slavery system. All the segregation and discrimination rules against the blacks at that time were made to preserve the existing economic system and the interest of its beneficiaries. Though the American civil war was attributed to states and civil rights, the driving forces behind the war was the conflict of economic interests.

– Med Jones

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