“We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
James Arthur Baldwin
“Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling”
Abraham Lincoln
“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
Oscar Wilde
“Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.”
General George S. Patton
“America is the best half-educated country in the world.”
Nicholas Murray Butler
“America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.”
Peter Kropotkin