It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
“As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.”
“You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.”