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

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Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer. – Dorothy Fuldheim

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I love America more than any other country in this world; and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. – James Baldwin

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Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. – Matthew Arnold

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