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“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
“In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.”
Woody Allen
“American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers”
William Somerset Maugham
“If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from "The Beverly Hillbillies”
Dave Barry
“Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism; Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant; that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“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
“America is a mistake, a giant mistake.”
Sigmund Freud
“Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing.”
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?”
Dan Castellaneta
“We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.”
Dan Quayle
