A people's speech is the skin of its culture.

American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.

The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.