“You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt”
Harold Macmillan
“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
Oscar Wilde
“America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.”
Jane Addams
“"If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow.”
George W. Bush
“Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other 2% have to generate their own sex and violence.”
Franklin P. Jones
“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
“America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”
Alexis de Tocqueville