Murica Quotes

“I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.”
― Gore Vidal, Death Before Bedtime

“Hundreds would die, but not the thing they died for.”
― Esther Forbes

“In nations where it exists, every individual takes an equal share in sovereign power and participates equally in the government of the state. Thus he is considered as enlightened, virtuous, strong as any of his fellow men. Why then does he obey society and what are the normal limits of his obedience? He obeys not because he holds an inferior position to those who run the administration or is less capable than his neighbor of self-government but because he recognizes the usefulness of his association with his fellow men and because he knows that this association cannot exist without a regulating power. While he has become a subject in all the mutual duties of citizens, he remains master in his own affairs where he is free and answerable only to God and his action. Out of that grows the general truth that the individual is the sole and best placed judge of his own private concerns and society has the right to control his actions only when it feels such actions cause it damage or needs to seek the cooperation of the individual.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“You can’t spell American without “I can.”
― A.D. Aliwat, Alpha

“It has been observed that all Americans need a frontier: pain was hers, and she was determined to push it out.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

“It is work that truly defines what it means to be an American, what separates and elevates its people above all others in the world today.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“America is the most masculine nation-state that’s ever existed. America is more like Wall Street. Mean as hell, straight, big dick swinging, winner-takes-all mindset.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo