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:
“We Americans are supposed to be overly concerned about the child. But actually the intelligent care of children in our society is balanced by a crass indifference to the helplessness of infancy and youth. Cruelty to children has become more widespread but less noticed in the general unrest, the constant migration, the family disintegration, and the other manifestations of a civilization that has been torn away from its original moorings.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)
“The Americans are certainly hero-worshippers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others—this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world’s peoples.”
—George F. Will (b. 1941)