“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
“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 the best half-educated country in the world.”
Nicholas Murray Butler
“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
Oscar Wilde
“My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protection; that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government”
George Washington
“We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.”
Mark Twain
