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- America is a young country with an old mentality.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
- Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)
- America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.
- Dinesh D'Souza
- America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
- John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
- And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.
- William Bradford (1590 - 1657), Of Plymouth Plantation
- Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
- Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), My Antonia
- George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping?
- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Bolt from the Blue, 1994
- The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
- J. William Fulbright (1905 - ), Speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. April 28, 1966
- I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
- I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president.
- John Kerry (1943 - ), speech in New York, August 24, 2004
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