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“Stormy husky brawling City of the Big Shoulders.”
“I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.”
“I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America but the business and administrative centre of American culture.”
“America and its demons Europe and its ghosts.”
“Hail Columbia! happy land! Hail ye heroes! heavenborn band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.”
“Thou too sail on O Shipof State! Sail on O Union strong and great! Humanity with all its fears With all the hopes of future years Is hanging breathless on thy fate!”
“I was born an American I live an American I shall die an American.”
“Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over but when the whole man has come over heart and thought and all the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.”
“America is God's crucible the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming!... The Real American has not yet arived. He is only in the crucible Itell you - he will be t...”
