I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a single….

Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace..

There is in the American Government...a want of unity.... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have one purpose or obey one will s….

The national park is the best idea America ever had..

No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much..

Life is too short for reading inferior books..

The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable..

California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital..

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows..

It is accepted as an axiom by all Americans that the civil power ought to be not only neutral and impartial as between different forms of faith, but ….

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong..

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature..

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence..

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity..

An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make a good pres….

The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he calls 'magnetic,'….

Of all the differences between the Old World and the New, this is perhaps the most salient. Half the wars of Europe, half the internal troubles that ….

The presence of the blacks is the greatest evil that threatens the United States. They increase, in the Gulf States, faster than do the whites. They ….

To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking..

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies..

Perhaps the most typically American place in America..