America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.
(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out and two when it is in.
People who leave Washington D.C. do so by way of the box - ballot or coffin.
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...
A town that has no ceiling price A town of double-talk A town so big men name her twice Like so: 'N'Yawk N'Yawk.'
The Americans believe they answered all first questions in 1776: since then they've just been hammering out the practical details.
That strange blend of the commercial traveller the missionary and the barbarian conqueror which was the American abroad.
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.
Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.
What constitutes an American? Not color nor race nor religion. Not the pedigree of his family nor the place of his birth. Not the coincidence of his citizenship. Not his social status nor his bank acc...
What my could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.
A well-established village in New England or the northern Middle-West could afford a town drunkard a town atheist and a few Democrats.
New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its predicted end ... it is the first American section to be fini...
As for what you're calling hard luck - well we made New England out of it. That and codfish.
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...
You say to your soldier 'Do this' and he does it. But I am obliged to say to the American 'This is why you ought to do this' and then he does it.
The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.
The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game ! and lost.
I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.