“America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.”
Arnold Toynbee
“October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.”
Thomas Merton
“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.”
Winston Churchill
“An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.”
George Bernard Shaw
“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
Oscar Wilde
“America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes”
Ayn Rand
“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