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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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"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."
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"American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring."
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"I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes."
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"In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster."
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"More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children."
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"The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture."
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"I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England."
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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."
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"I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime."
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Explore more quotes by Ezra Stiles

"Our trade opens to all the world."
Trade

"The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made."
American

"All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America."
America

"A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments."
Wisdom

"A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia."
People

"Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right."
Government

"But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years."
Conquest

"The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people."
People

"But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government."
Government

"Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents."
Law
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