Logo
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

Other quotes by Herman Melville

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. – Herman Melville

Category:
Survival
Author
Herman Melville
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
USA Patriotic
category

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

Category:
USA Patriotic

We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution. – John F. Kennedy

Category:
USA Patriotic

There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream. – Archibald MacLeish

Category:
USA Patriotic

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

Category:
USA Patriotic

Random Quotes

I didnt grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny – those are the things I got feedback on. – Lauren Graham

Category:
Beauty

I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart. – Lee Konitz

Category:
car

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise. – Natalie Clifford Barney

Category:
God

I dont write literary fiction – I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today. – Jennifer Weiner

Category:
funny