One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun

A nobleman is Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer

This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it

I hope we don't lose in America this demand that those of us who want this office must be prepared not to handle the 10-second gimmick that deals, say, with little things like war and peace

The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself

The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose

The more characteristic American hero in the earlier day, and the more beloved type at all times, was not the hustler but the whittler

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled