American
American(s) may refer to:
- A person or attribute of one of the nations of the Americas
- Americans, citizens or attributes of or from the United States of America
- See also: Citizenship in the United States, Names for United States citizens
- The indigenous peoples of the Americas
- A person of American ethnicity
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Famous quotes containing the word american:
“Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
“Were they to emigrate in a body to man the navies of the moon, almost every thing would stop here on earth except its revolution on its axis, and the orators in the American Congress.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.”
—George F. Will (b. 1941)