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America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar, and use it up in two weeks. --Anonymous

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. --Oscar Wilde

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America. --Anonymous

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world? --Richard M. Nixon

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans--born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them [which] we are missing. --Gamel Abd Al-Nasser

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. --Frank Lloyd Wright

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. --Albert Einstein

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. --H.L. Mencken