“There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.”
“Economics: America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for a dollar and use it up in two weeks.”
“The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, ''The trouble with this country is...''”
“This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.”
“The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.”
“No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.”
“America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.”
“The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.”
“In Boston they ask, ''How much does he know?'' In New York, ''How much is he worth?'' In Philadelphia, ''Who were his parents?''”
“I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy.”
“Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.”
“In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.”
“Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners.”
“America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.”
“Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.”
“Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.”
“On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”
“There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.”
“America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.”
“America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.”
“The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.”
“What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.”
“One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.”
“I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.”
“It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.”
“America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.”
“No... the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you -- he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.”
“Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. this is not the case.”
“Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.”
“Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause.”