The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.