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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.
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.
When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.
When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.
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
America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
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.
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
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
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