Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
Sir, [the American colonists] are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer.
