By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will read more

By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not read more

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and read more

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. read more

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I read more

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, read more

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he read more

We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.