It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe. – Albert J. Beveridge

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

The metaphor of the melting pot is unfortunate and misleading. A more accurate analogy would be a salad bowl, for, though the salad is an entity, the lettuce can still be distinguished from the chicory, the tomatoes from the cabbage. – Carl N. Degler

America is a place where Jewish merchants sell Zen love beads to agnostics for Christmas. – John Burton Brimer