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- Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Don't get the idea the I'm knocking the American system.
- Al Capone (1899 - 1947)
- America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war... The war-for-profit group has counterfeited patriotism.
- Charles Lindberg Sr., 1915
- I like to think of us as Clearasil on the face of the nation. Jim Morrison would have said that if he was smart, but he's dead.
- Lou Reed on his band
- The 100% American is 99% an idiot.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
- G.K. Chesterton
- I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved it.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.
- Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)
- A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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