The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

It's so damned humiliating.

By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.