United States
- Charles Turner (musician) (1936–2006), American jazz trumpeter
- Charles Turner, Jr. (1760–1839), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
- Charles E. Turner (1886–1936), real estate developer, mayor of Dallas, 1932–1935
- Charles H. Turner (attorney) (born 1936), U.S. Attorney for Oregon
- Charles Henry Turner (painter) (1848–1908), American painter
- Charles Henry Turner (U.S. Representative) (1861–1913), U.S. Representative from New York
- Charles Henry Turner (zoologist) (1867–1923), American zoologist
- Charles W. Turner (1921–1950), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
- Charles Yardley Turner (1850–1918), American painter
- Chuck Turner (born 1941), Boston councillor
- Charles Edward Turner (1945–1997), American botanist
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“Today’s difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
“The United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves. They are determined to keep them in this condition; and Massachusetts is one of the confederated overseers to prevent their escape.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“And hereby hangs a moral highly applicable to our own trustee-ridden universities, if to nothing else. If we really wanted liberty of speech and thought, we could probably get it—Spain fifty years ago certainly had a longer tradition of despotism than has the United States—but do we want it? In these years we will see.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds ... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
“In the United States there’s a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.”
—Umberto Eco (b. 1932)