The traveler to the United States will do well, however, to prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Once the visitor was told rather repetitively that this city was the melting pot; never before in history had so many people of such varied languages, customs,…

The Senate has unlimited debate; in the House, debate is ruthlessly circumscribed. There is frequent discussion as to which technique most effectively frustrat…

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 th…

Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace; and America is just ourselves, with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace …