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"An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing."
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"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."
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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."
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"Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so."
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"I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now."
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"Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences."
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"I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is."
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"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."
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"The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out."
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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
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"A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times."
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"The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality."
Business
"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."
Religion
"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."
Positive
"Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners."
Men
"It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too."
Men
"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."
History
"The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people."
Power
"There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin."
Time
"There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it."
War
"The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens."
Health
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