Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
H. L. Mencken

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore Vidal

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama

A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
William Ralph Inge

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Dan Rather

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
Ronald Reagan

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
J. Bartlett Brebner

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
Kurt Vonnegut

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
Dave Barry

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Sir Richard Francis Burton

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.
Gary Zukav

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
Oscar Levant

Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.
Joey Bishop

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Woody Allen

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin