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The Americans
«The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
America and Americans,
Christianity,
Liberty,
Religion
| Keywords:
Americans, combine, combines, conceive, conceive of, intimately, notions, The Americans
«There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.»
Author: Edward Dahlberg
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
American Idol, coldest, idol, lucre, rapidly, The Americans
«Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the humiliation of the old, the division of the family, the division of the country-it had all been done in our name... The French city... had represented the opium stage of the addiction. With the Americans had begun the heroin phase.»
Author: James Fenton
| Keywords:
addicted, addiction, division, drug addict, drug addiction, drug addicts, heroin, heroin addict, heroin addiction, humiliation, mutilation, mutilations, old country, phase, prostitution, represented, Saigon, The Americans, The Division, the French
«The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.»
Author: Margot Asquith
| Keywords:
free people, ingrained, pathetically, people of England, personal liberty, The Americans, titles, untrue
«Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world.»
Author: Archibald MacLeish
(Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
American history, History of the world, The Americans
«The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
American civilization, card, Englishman, friendliness, hearted, irony, keynote, poise, shirt, The Americans
«The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
American civilization, coarse, denote, denotes, preserved, remote, rusticity, The Americans, unacquainted, unacquainted with, villager, villagers
«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.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
chaser, chasers, libel, reiterate, reiterated, The Americans, thoughtlessly
«The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all / isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
all important, laxative, laxatives, manifestation, The Americans, unpleasantness