Whoever wants to know the hearts and minds of America had better learn baseball.
America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.
The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century.
Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out and two when it is in.
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
The Americans believe they answered all first questions in 1776: since then they've just been hammering out the practical details.
Americans have a special horror of letting things happen their own way without interference. They would like to jump down their stomachs digest the food and shovel the shit out.
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came an Indian said simply 'Ours.'
In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars for all passengers being Americans are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyon...
The true America is the Middle West and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.
America once had the clarity of a pioneer axe.
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.
The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.
America should care more for its poor and reform itself in other ways but even if it won't do those things it remains the least constrained society on earth.
Florida: God's waiting room.
The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an ath...
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
Good Americans when they die go to Paris.
The American's conversation is much like his courtship ... He gives an inkling and watches for a reaction if the weather looks fair he inkles a little more. Wishing neither to intrude nor be intrude...
The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.
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