"What a glorious morning for America."
(Samuel Adams, said to John Hancock following a battle)

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
(Dave Barry)

When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
(William Blake)

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
(Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries)

Freedom is a contagious blessing.
(Stephen Covington)

I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
(Gerald Early, writer, baseball documentary, 1994)

America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
(Bobcat Goldthwait)

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
(Samuel Johnson)

I have not yet begun to fight
(John Paul Jones)

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
(Shane Leslie)