I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets she needs none. There she is. Behold her and judge for yourselves.
That enfabled rock that ship of life that swarming million-footed tower-masted sky-soaring citadel that bears the magic name of the Island of Manhattan.
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
America - the best poor man's country in the world.
Nothing ever gets settled in this town (Washington). It's not like running a company or even a university. It's a seething debating society in which the debate never stops in which people never give...
America is a willingness of the heart.
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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...
America and its demons Europe and its ghosts.
I'm from Indiana the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.
the greatest Americanshave not been born yetthey are waiting patientlyfor the past to die
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...
I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.
Why if you're not in New York you are camping out.
The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.
The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded.
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.
Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth that there are no gains without pains.