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Let us have done with British-Americans and Irish-Americans and German- Americans, and so on, and all be Americans... If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives; and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, speech, 1888
For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. JohnWinthrop, first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, sermon before embarking to America I have derived a good deal more benefit of the civilizing as well as of the inspirational kind from the admirable American bathroom than I have from the cathedrals of Europe. EdmundWilson, A Piece of My Mind To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority to the masses of one’s fellow men, and (c) delicately and unceasingly amused according to one’s tastes. It is my contention that, if this definition be accepted, there is no country in the world wherein a man... can be so happy as he can in the United States. H. L. Mencken, On Being an American Totally not kidding. We’ve done it. Internet meme caption to Emanuel Leutz’s painting, “Washington Crossing the Delaware” Americans. Willing to cross a frozen river to kill you. In your sleep. On Christmas.
God has a special providence for drunkards, fools, and the United States of America. Attributed to Otto von Bismarck Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. Stephen Decatur, toast given at Norfolk, Virginia, April 1816 And, in her intercourse with foreign nations, may our country always carry condoms in her purse. Anonymous
I like to be in America! O.K. by me in America!
Everything free in America For a small fee in America! “America,” West Side Story
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