Famous quotes containing the words american and/or definition:
“If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.”
—William James (1842–1910)