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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In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. – Herman Melville

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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. – Herman Melville

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Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him. – Giuseppe Mazzini

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America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own. – Seneca

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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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