#mer

Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home. ↗

— Ben Folds

#even #feel #get #go #go home

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history. ↗

— Dave Foley

#american history #books #canadian #history #history books

Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future. ↗

— Mark Foley

#against #american #american government #assuring #elderly

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era. ↗

— Ken Follett

#american #among #before #communist #communists

Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition. ↗

— Robert M. La Follette

#every #every nation #imperialistic #nation #opposition

America is a mistake, a giant mistake. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#giant #mistake

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#about #afraid #amazing #america #american

As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program. ↗

— Randy Forbes

#american #believer #firm #firm believer #house

A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples - in particular the United States of America - fought so that we Germans could live in liberty. That we should never forget. ↗

— Horst Koehler

#america #could #few #forget #fought

When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for all, the result must be just this terror of individualistic impulses setting us apart, either above or below our neighbours; just this determination to obey without questioning and to subscribe with passion to the conventions and traditions. The dilemma becomes a very real one: How can this sense of democratic equality be made compatible with respect for exceptional personalities or great minds? How can democracy, as we understand it today, with its iron repression of the free spirit, its monotonous standardisation of everything, learn to cherish an intellectual aristocracy without which any nation runs the risk of becoming a civilisation of the commonplace and the second-rate? ↗

— Harold Edmund Stearns

#civilization #conventions #distinction #equality #individualism