Famous quotes containing the words american and/or society:
“How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization as my government which is the slave’s government also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)