Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them [which] we are missing.
If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin forone dollar, and use it up in two weeks.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.