The metaphor of the melting pot is unfortunate and misleading. A more accurate analogy would be a salad bowl, for, though the salad is an entity, the lettuce can still be distinguished from the chicory, the tomatoes from the cabbage. – Carl N. Degler

The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind. – Charles Francis Adams

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land. – Philip James Bailey