I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat. – Stephen Vincent Benet

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It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die. – Margot Asquith

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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. – W. H. Auden

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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. – Benjamin Harrison, address to Congress, 1888

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