We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old crow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks

While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced

As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.

The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.