Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out and two when it is in.
The Americans believe they answered all first questions in 1776: since then they've just been hammering out the practical details.
As for what you're calling hard luck - well we made New England out of it. That and codfish.
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.
He was an American character, one typical of men of his generation, men who embraced the notion of freedom and individualism and the open road without always knowing its price, and whose enthusiasms c...
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.
That strange blend of the commercial traveller the missionary and the barbarian conqueror which was the American abroad.
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...
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere it is not this sort of licence that distinguishes New York. It is rather a lust of the total ego for recognition even for eminence. More than elsew...
A well-established village in New England or the northern Middle-West could afford a town drunkard a town atheist and a few Democrats.
As I write this, we are in an especially divisive era in American politics. There are questions about who holds power, who abuses it, who profits from it, and at what cost to our democracy. It is a ti...
What my could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.
God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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...
Why if you're not in New York you are camping out.
America and its demons Europe and its ghosts.
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.
Showing 101 to 120 of 138 results