Americans Quotes

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them.

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

Americans never quit.

George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping?

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.