A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
Stormy husky brawling City of the Big Shoulders.
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 office of the president is such a bastardized thing half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
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...
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.
The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
I'm from Indiana the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.
America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say perception because America is a very all-or-nothing society… We like to know, and for...
If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully
The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded.
Good Americans when they die go to Paris.
The swaggering underemphasis of New England.
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...
The President spends most of his time kissing people on the cheek in order to get them to do what they ought to do without getting kissed.
Thou oh my country hast thy foolish ways Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.
America is a willingness of the heart.
(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century.
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