Americans
- John George (Virginia colonist) (1603–1679), Virginia colonist, landowner, soldier and burgess in the Virginia House of Burgesses
- John George (author), author of Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe
- John George (BMX racer) (born 1958), former American BMX racing pioneer from the early and mid 1970s
- John George (California politician), Alameda County supervisor for whom the county psychiatric hospital was named, activist and human rights pioneer
- John George, Jr. (born 1946), American businessman, farmer, and politician in the Massachusetts House of Representatives
- John George, US Army small arms expert and officer in Merrill's Marauders, author of Shots Fired In Anger
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Famous quotes containing the word americans:
“Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.... Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“All this stuff you heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans, traditionally, love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.... Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn’t give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost—and will never lose—a war, because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.”
—Francis Ford Coppola (b. 1939)
“My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, & I am not enough in sympathy with our “gros public” to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One’s friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don’t think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most déplacé & useless class on earth!”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)