Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts. — John Gunther Copy Share Image
New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with… — John Gunther Copy Share
[Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other… — John Gunther Copy Share
The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you. — John Gunther Copy Share
It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill. — John Gunther Copy Share
The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the… — John Gunther Copy Share
France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it. — John Gunther Copy Share
