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:
“Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.”
—C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)
“Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.”
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)
“Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is
what Americans are and that is what always upsets the
foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly
how can they be so suspicious and they are so
suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just
are and that certainly has something to do with their
having tucked their capital, their capitals away.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)