It always will seem funny to us United Staters that we are about the only ones that really know how to do everything right. I don’t know how a lot of these other Nations have existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around and show ’em really how to be Pure and Good like us.

Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist

“Letter of a Self-Made Diplomat to His President,” Saturday Evening Post (1932-02-27)
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Collected in More Letters of a Self-Made Diplomat to His President (1928) [ed. Steven Gragert].