You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other

The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them

America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.

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

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