#erica

Washington, Franklin, Madison, Hamilton, Adams, and Jefferson had imagined the American experiment coming to all sorts of bad ends. They never imagined the Federal City overrun by frontiersmen who cared nothing for history and loved only cheap land and credit, whiskey, tobacco, guns, fast women, fast horses, and Jesus. Not necessarily in that order. ↗

— Walter A. McDougall

#experience

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#american #any #cannot #country #die

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#destroyed #generation #hysterical #i #madness

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood? ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#holy #how #i #i write #litany

Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country? ↗

— Carter Glass

#american people #any #banks #country #debts

Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact. ↗

— Jim Goad

#biological #caused #exploit #fact #how

The American people will regret the day I was crucified by politics and bureaucracy." Billy Mitchell ↗

— James Bradley

#courage

There's no royalty in America, so people deify actors. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#people #royalty

The mad, cruel, and accursed American war. ↗

— Lord George Gordon

#american #cruel #mad #war

It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver. ↗