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In The Four Quarters Of The Globe, Who Reads An American Book, Or Goes To An American Play, Or Looks At An American Picture Or Statue?
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In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or
goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue?
-- Sydney Smith (1769-1845)
-- Review of Seybert's Annals of the United States, 1820
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The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road
and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid twenty-two per cent, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death....
The United States also has its native Fascists who say that they are 100 percent American.
.. -- U. S. Army (1945)...
Men who prefer any load of infamy, however great, to any pressure of taxation, however light.
-- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- On American Deb...
A poll conducted recently showed that American parents who raised those many children who could not find the United States on a map can not find their children on an average evening.
Be American, Buy American - and CHARGE IT!
All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
-- Pat Paulse...
This Embassy is United States territory. Nobody can be dragged away and shot without the written consent of the American government.
-- Woody Allen, "Don't Drink the Wate...