Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

Quote by Paul Fussell

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The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing...

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing...

I find nothing more depressing than optimism

I find nothing more depressing than optimism

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts...

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts...

I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if...

I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if...

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond...

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond...

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope...

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope...

Globalization has altered the dynamics in the White House, as well as between the White...

Globalization has altered the dynamics in the White House, as well as between the White...

A child born to a black mother in a state like Mississippi...has exactly the same...

A child born to a black mother in a state like Mississippi...has exactly the same...

Maybe he's only a little bit crazy, like painters, or composers, or some of those...

Maybe he's only a little bit crazy, like painters, or composers, or some of those...

I moved to New York City for my health. I'm paranoid and it was the...

I moved to New York City for my health. I'm paranoid and it was the...

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that...

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that...

By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.......

By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.......

America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences...

America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences...

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that...

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that...

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights...

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights...

If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of...

If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of...

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

I shall use America and democracy as convertible terms

I shall use America and democracy as convertible terms

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to...

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to...