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

Americans can eat garbage, provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup, mustard, chili sauce, Tabasco sauce, cayenne pepper, or any other condiment which destroys the original flavor of the dish

The American people, taken one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the middle ages

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

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

I guess it wouldn't discourage a real mob for very long, but it packs all the authority you can put in a desk drawer.