By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will read more

By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count read more

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat read more

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.

Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it

Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence read more

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has read more

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under read more

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.