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The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want. — Harry Browne

I dare say being a receptionist at the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square gets you a reasonable salary and all the nylon stockings you can eat, — Hugh Laurie

The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics. — Theodore Roosevelt

American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that. — Shirley Henderson

I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world. — Alexander Payne

I feel like I am not an American in the eyes of my government because of their religious beliefs. I think that is un-American. — Michael Newdow

The American police had shot another child for being black and outside, and the child had died, there on the pavement in the company of his killers. — Sarah Moss

I am a Cajun Baby in a Texas girl, an all-American woman and a global goddess. — Erin Cummings

What's more, he was going to have a full American breakfast with bacon and eggs, none of this continental bullshit. — Gish Jen

As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough. — Karine Vanasse

I grew up with 'Roseanne'; I kind of adore her and stuff like' Home Improvement', really traditional American stuff. — Jessie Cave

In early Meiji one yen was worth a little more than one American dollars; — George H. Kerr

The American public is sick and tired of being lied to. — Patrick Leahy

I am especially proud of taking on issues most central to the health of our American democracy. — Chellie Pingree

The American idea that everyone graduates high school at 18 is a good one. — David Miliband

You can't spell American without "I can. — A.D. Aliwat

Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress. — P. J. O'Rourke

An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist. — Henry Adams

There is a lack of agency here - a feeling that you have little control over your life and a willingness to blame everyone but yourself. — J.D. Vance

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Formula 1 is a huge international phenomenon even if an otherwise car racing obsessed American public has always found Formula 1 to be a little weird. — Rachel Maddow

I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

A free American girl can accommodate herself to circumstances without the aid of a man. -Nellie Bly — Matthew Goodman

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going. — Harvey Pekar

College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families. — Barbara Mikulski

Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history. — Robert Dallek

Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American. — James Hunter

I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people. — Rand Paul

The American Civil Liberties Union, has helped neutralize the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of our legal system by seeking new legal precedents. — Bill Bright

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom. — Jeff Sharlet

In every crisis there is a message ... — Susan L. Taylor

Emphasis on "American made products"
will help us if the currency falls. — Phil Mitchell

I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism, around the world and here as well. — Tom Brokaw

'Dust Devil,' I've never really seen with an American audience, so I'm looking forward to that experience. — Richard Stanley

One thing I would like to see is a stronger ladder series for up-and-coming American drivers. — Michael Andretti

PEOPLE DIE
THEIR ENERGY DON'T! — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

Bullshit is truly the American soundtrack. — George Carlin

More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege. — Michael Anti

We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds. — Abraham Verghese

I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty. — Hank Johnson

We have reached in this country an amazing degree of general prosperity, with American business on the whole no longer facing an uphill climb. — Charles M. Schwab

To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American. — Steve Martin

Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child. — Craig Ferguson

There are still a lotta nice Sicilian boys in New Orleans. (A nonna's advice to a zitella.) — Traci Andrighetti

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. — Toni Morrison

I feel as much British as I do American. There's not much difference between our countries. — John McAfee

Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American. — Jackie Speier

The 100% American is 99% idiot. — George Bernard Shaw

When I was growing up in school, I wasn't the archetype of the classic American nerd; I was just different. — Andy Biersack

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag. — Adrian Cronauer

In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful. — Don McLean

The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.
- pg. 41 — William S. Burroughs

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes. — Hugh Sidey

I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag. — Abraham Lincoln

I don't denounce being Canadian at any point, but I'm definitely proud to be an American. — Jason Bay

If New Mexican voters believe the path to create American jobs is keeping taxes low, then they have an option. That's my campaign. — Heather Wilson

American nation was not founded on political principles. This nation was founded on spiritual principles. — Marco Rubio

I'm like an American Girl doll on crack. — Katie McGarry

The American dream is dead for the majority of America. — Suze Orman

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism. — Ben Nicholson

Europeans have a different take [on nudity] than American actors do. They're not quite as hung up. — Dennis Haysbert

The judges say, make it your own, so I just remixed a song if I felt like the piece needed it — Blake Lewis

Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list. — Robbie Robertson

Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progressivism. — A.E. Samaan

My mind may be American but my heart is British. — T. S. Eliot

Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American. — William J. Clinton

The love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins. — Jimmy Carter

American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds. — Shane Smith

I guess the biggest surprise I got going to Iran was that the Iranians really liked me as an American. — Elaine Sciolino

I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream. — Camille Paglia

American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems. — Saul Williams

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution. — William E. Gladstone

We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic. — Michele Bachmann

Our flag represents every American and it should not be hidden away as a result of property agreements. — Mike Fitzpatrick

The man mistook American patience and attempts at diplomacy for weakness. — Joseph Badal

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education. — Paul Erdos

As a student of American culture, I am willing to argue that the Twist is a valid manifestation of the Age of Anxiety. — Marshall Fishwick

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. — Helmut Jahn

Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character. — Aasif Mandvi

The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families. — Robert Wuthnow

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet. — Kenneth Koch

I believe that the American audience is not so dumb that they wouldn't be interested in a black story. — Euzhan Palcy

Every part of the earth is sacred to my people. — Chief Seattle

Most people use Twitter to meet girls, and I use it to meet 'American Idol' contestants! — Chris Jericho

The American Cancer Society has done the American public a really great disservice. — David Baltimore

I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American people. — Frank Lautenberg

Donald Trump is a leader. He produces results and is ready to get tough in order to protect American jobs and families. — Joe Arpaio

You may be amazed that you are still unique and beautiful as your natural self. Only you can decide if this style is for you. — Monica Millner

I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was. — Callan McAuliffe

Giving English to an American is like giving sex to a child. He knows it's important but he doesn't know what to do with it. — Adam Cooper

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact. — J. William Fulbright

American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions. — Robert Dallek

Challenging leaders is as American as it gets. — Rick Santelli

I've always been a big fan of the American soul sound. — Jose Carreras

Being an American in Australia isn't easy,
but I'm trying to integrate, I'm trying to fit in. — Billy Marshall Stoneking

His third-floor bedroom wasn't an all-American room. It was an all-English room, lacking only a three-pronged outlet and a draft. — Peter Smith

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep. — Queen Elizabeth II

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets. — Sarah Vowell

I believe in prayer. It's the best ... — Josephine Baker

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle. — Cormac McCarthy