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Quote by G.K. Chesterton
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. Th

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. – G.K. Chesterton

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You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink. – G.K. Chesterton

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You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. – G.K. Chesterton

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The freedom we have in America is like breathing in an entire open field of fresh air all at once. Sometimes too much air can be stifling. – Amali Ryvre, 2007

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It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe. – Albert J. Beveridge

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As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that its a bore. – Henry Adams

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The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. – Walter Lippman

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