...Americans couldn't imagine about what it was like to be something else and be proud of it.

The Constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming ...

Laughter is America's most important export.