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McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled. ↗

— Joseph R. McCarthy

#mccarthyism #rolled #sleeves

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow. ↗

— Kiichi Miyazawa

#american workers #brow #come #ethic #i

None of the European girls, including Anita Ekberg, has anything not found on American girls as well. ↗

— Cleo Moore

#anita #anything #european #found #including

I am an American. I love this country. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#american #country #i #i am #i love

Katrina was sexy, Irene looks hot, come on people, just see, how beautifully she dances along the coast. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#hurricane-irene #hurricane-katrina #beauty

I'm basically a homegrown American. ↗

— Junior Seau

#basically #homegrown #i

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#american #jhumpa-lahiri #life #money #the-namesake

In the wake of World War II, most Democrats and liberals claimed that if justice could be done and was not, only evil intent could explain the inaction. Most Republicans and conservatives replied scornfully that the vagabonds were simply calling yet again for an equal share of wealth that others had earned. Most moderates, both Democrats and Republicans, admitted that more justice demanded to be done, but they warned that equality, absent the striving and competition that had always characterized American life, might be an attractive dream, but it was not “the” American Dream. Pursuing the American Dream, 7, 196 ↗

— Cal Jillson

#role-of-government #dreams

We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#american #american revolution #around #came #concept

I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome. ↗

— Hans Kung

#bishops #i #i remember #remember #rome