America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos. – Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949

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Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet," Essays, Second Series, 1844

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Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose. – Ulysses S. Grant

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