They did not only leave the old world, they repudiated it. Americans start from sratch.
America - Americans Quotes
Only in America – do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.
Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever.
If the American dream is for Americans only, it will remain our dream and never be our destiny.
Only in America – do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.
Only in America – do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front of the store.
The most American thing about America is the free common school system.
Here and there in the midst of American society you meet with men full of a fanatical and almost wild spiritualism, which hardly exists in Europe. From time to time strange sects arise which endeavor to strike out extraordinary paths to eternal happiness. Religious insanity is very common in the United States.