In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced

As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.

We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old crow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks

The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history.