Quote by Herman Melville
You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blo

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world. – Herman Melville

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The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. – Herman Melville

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Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. – John Gunther

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We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights. – Felix Frankfurter

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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. – Woodrow Wilson

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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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