Americans always try to do the right thing after they’ve tried everything else. Winston Churchill.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election. Bill Vaughan
It is always dangerous to generalise, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die. Margot Asquith
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left. Orson Welles
If a stranger taps you on the ass and says, ‘How’s the little lady today!’ you will probably cringe. But if he’s an American, he’s only being friendly. Margaret Atwood
The American people still believe in peace, human rights and justice; they are still a generous, fair-minded, open-minded people. Theodore Sorensen
I’ve always felt, in all my books, that there’s a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence – providing they have the facts, providing they have the information. Studs Terkel
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. A E Housman
Like so many substantial Americans, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag. P G Wodehouse
Every American woman has two souls to call her own, the other being her husband’s. James Agate
The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week. Margot Asquith