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Americans are people who insist on living in the present, tense.
Americans are so enamoured of equality they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville...
Americans' greatest fear is that America will turn out to have been a phenomenon, not a civilization.
-- Shirley Hazzard, "Transit of Venu...
Americans have always attached particular value to the word "neighbor.
Americans have different ways of saying things. They say `elevator', we say `lift'.
..they say `President', we say `stupid psychopathic git'.... -- Alexi Sayle...
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
-- James Madiso...
American showgirl Carol Gale initiated a malpractice suit after a plastic surgeon accidentally injected her with Silly Putty instead of silicone.
Carol claimed that overnight she went from a 34B to...
Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an 'inconvenience.
' We have opted instead for an authoritarian system *disguised* as a De...
Americans love a winner... and WILL NOT TOLERATE a loser.

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