There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them