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...
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
A Bostonian - an American broadly speaking.
(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
America is a willingness of the heart.
The office of the president is such a bastardized thing half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
I believe our clever young man has intuited that while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many.
I had the feeling that all over America such stupid arguments were taking place on street corners and in bars and restaurants. All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets an...
You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great big vulgar bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.
The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.
The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century.
America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.
People who leave Washington D.C. do so by way of the box - ballot or coffin.
Alexa and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the...
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came an Indian said simply 'Ours.'
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.
Ours is the country where in order to sell your product you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.
Every American wants MORE MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America is persons accumulate more more dead matter, machinery, possessions & rugs & fact informati...
The Americans believe they answered all first questions in 1776: since then they've just been hammering out the practical details.
The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game ! and lost.