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As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes a

As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that its a bore. – Henry Adams

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I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks Im wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. – Henry Adams

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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. – Henry Adams

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Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it. – Eric Nicol

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Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich. – H.G. Wells

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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated. – Walter Lippmann

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America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them. – James Michener

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