America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's
cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp
prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.
-- Walter Abish
Author
As for
America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful
hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent,
respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and
tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile
except that it's a bore.
-- Henry Brooks Adams
1838-1918, American
Historian
I
always consider the settlement of America with
reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand
scene and design in providence, for the illumination
of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish
part of mankind all over the earth.
-- John Adams
1735-1826, Second
President of the USA
Our
society distributes itself into Barbarians,
Philistines and Populace; and America is just
ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and
the Populace nearly.
-- Matthew Arnold
1822-1888, British
Poet, Critic
