The term American System can mean one of the following:
- American system of manufacturing, for a system of manufacturing developed in America.
- American System (economic plan), for the program of Henry Clay and the Whig Party.
- American School (economics), for the Hamiltonian American School of which the American System (economic plan) is a part.
- United States customary units, a system of measurement used in the United States
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“This American system of ours ... call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.”
—Al Capone (1899–1947)
“The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It’s over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.”
—J.G. (James Graham)
“My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.”
—Timothy Leary (b. 1920)