America - Americans Quotes

We Americans have played the European game. America, has now become what the European “civilizing powers” had long been – a figure with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other.

We can have no “50-50” allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

Americanization… did not cleanse America of its ethnic minorities, it cleansed its minorities of their ethnicity.

There’s only four things we (Americans) do better than anyone else: music, movies, microcode, and high-speed pizza delivery.

The professors of every form of hyphenated Americanism are as truly the foes of this country as if they dwelled outside its borders and made active war against it. Once it was true that this country could not endure half free and half slave. Today it is true that it can not endure half American […]

I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100% American as 99% an idiot. And they adore me.

We’re not some crowd of pious, sniveling, red-green Europeans trying to make the world safe for boutiques! We’re not some swarm of Confucian social engineers who would love to watch the masses chop cotton for the next two millennia! We are a nation of hands-on cosmic mechanics!

We have not got room for hyphenated Americans: German-Americans; Irish-Americans; we want Americans pure and simple.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

A hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts ‘Native’ before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the […]