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 America was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and was named after him, until people got tired of living in a place called "Vespuccia" and changed its name to "America"

 America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments
  Anatole France

 Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it
  William Somerset Maugham

 Anglo-American culture seems to be governed by the perverse belief that portrayals of the body's abuse or destruction are harmless, even fortifying, while those that show the body in pleasure act like poison

 If the American dream is for Americans only, it will remain our dream and never be our destiny

 In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
  Alexis de Tocqueville

 In just two weeks, Bill Clinton will no longer be President of the United States. He'll just be another chubby, middle-aged guy annoying the waitresses at Hooters.
  Jay Leno

 It's like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he's supposed to change for the worse. It's silly.
  Barbra Streisand

 Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and we're all precious in God's sight.
  Jesse Jackson

 Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America--not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
  Marshall McLuhan

 That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing-the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the first opportunity that characterizes the American soldier.
  Dwight David Eisenhower

 The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

 The frontier of America is on the Rhine
  Franklin D. Roosevelt

 The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
  William Somerset Maugham

 The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.
  Charles W. Eliot


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