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...
Pennsylvania the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.
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.'
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.
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.
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.
As for what you're calling hard luck - well we made New England out of it. That and codfish.
Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out and two when it is in.
God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
America and its demons Europe and its ghosts.
A well-established village in New England or the northern Middle-West could afford a town drunkard a town atheist and a few Democrats.
He speaks English with the flawless imperfection of a New Yorker.
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
That strange blend of the commercial traveller the missionary and the barbarian conqueror which was the American abroad.
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...
Why if you're not in New York you are camping out.
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...
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.