The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.

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

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