What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say "elevator", we say "lift"... they say "President", we say "stupid psychopathic read more

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say "elevator", we say "lift"... they say "President", we say "stupid psychopathic git.

We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly read more

We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive genius of free men read more

America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'

I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'

We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he read more

We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and read more

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them