In the old Republican days the subject of slavery and of the saving of the Union made appeals to the consciences and liberty-loving instincts of the people. These later years have been full of talk ab...
Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not t...
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
Stormy husky brawling City of the Big Shoulders.
I'm from Indiana the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.
I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.
The true America is the Middle West and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.
Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth that there are no gains without pains.
The swaggering underemphasis of New England.
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.
A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.
The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.
America once had the clarity of a pioneer axe.
Ours is a shockingly dead view of creation. We ourselves are the only things in the universe to which we grant an authentic vitality, and because of this we are not fully alive.
The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
Thou oh my country hast thy foolish ways Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.
The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded.
If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully
That’s what money will buy you, in America, Brown had said, firmly. People say Americans are materialistic. But do you know why? Why? asked Milgrim, more concerned with this uncharacteristically expan...
It had to be that Americans were taught, from elementary school, to always say something in class, no matter what. [...] They never said I don't know. They said, instead, I'm not sure, which did not g...