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- America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
- Bobcat Goldthwaite
- What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
- Margot Asquith
- Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.
- Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
- Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
- Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
- Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
- Dan Rather (1931 - )
- Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
- Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)
- No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
- Harold Rosenberg
- I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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