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Asylum of the oppressed of every nation.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: phrase used in the Democratic platform of 1856, referring to the U.S.
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O, Columbia, the gem of the ocean,
The home of the brave and the free,
The shrine of each patriot's devotion,
A world offers homage to them.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: a adaptation of Shaw's "Britannia"
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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more
perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility,
provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and
secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Prosperity,
do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States
of America.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America
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My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but
whether successful or otherwise, always right.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America
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Yet, still, from either beach,
The voice of blood shall reach,
More audible than speech,
"We are one!"
Author: Washington Allston
Source: America to Great Britain
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From many to make one.
[Lat., Ex pluribus unum facere.]
Author: Saint Aurelius Augustine
Source: Confessions (bk. IV, 8, 13)
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America! half brother of the world!
With something good and bad of every land.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. The Surface, l. 340)
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O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountains majesties
Above the fruited plain.
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.
Author: Katharine Lee Bates
Source: America, the Beautiful, first stanza of a song
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A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not
yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Speech on Conciliation with America--Works (vol. II)
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Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little
more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth
manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal
to the whole that commerce which now attracts the envy of the
world.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Speech on Conciliation with America--Works (vol. II)
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I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people
who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
Author: George Walker Bush
Source: to rescue workers at the destruction of New York's World Trade Center
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This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger.
Author: George Walker Bush
Source: on the destruction of New York's World trade Center
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I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of
the Old.
Author: George Canning
Source: The King's Message
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Out where the handclasp's a little stronger,
Out where the smile swells a little longer,
That's where the West begins.
Author: Arthur Chapman
Source: Out Where the West Begins
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The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still
rising on America.
Author: William Jefferson Clinton
Source: in the "Sunday Times"
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The North! the South! the West! the East!
No one the most and none the least,
But each with its own heart and mind,
Each of its own distinctive kind,
Yet each a part and none the whole,
But all together form one soul;
That soul Our Country at its best,
No North, no South, no East, no West,
No yours, no mine, but always Ours,
Merged in one Power our lesser powers,
For no one's favor, great or small,
But all for Each and each for All.
Author: Edmund Vance Cooke
Source: Each for All, in "The Uncommon Commoner"
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Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise,
The queen of the world and the child of the skies!
Thy genius commands thee; with rapture behold,
While ages on ages thy splendors unfold.
Author: Timothy Dwight
Source: Columbia
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Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a
cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the
Americans themselves.
Author: Timothy Dwight
Source: Columbia
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Bring me men to match my mountains,
Bring me men to match my plains,
Men with empires in their purpose,
And new eras in their brains.
Author: Sam Walter Foss
Source: The Coming American
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Wake up America.
Author: Major Augustus P. Gardner
Source: Speech
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When asked what State he hails from,
Our sole reply shall be,
He comes from Appomattox
And its famous apple tree.
Author: Charles G. Halpine (used pseudonym Miles O'Reilly)
Source: Poem quoted by Roscoe Conkling
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The breaking waves dashed high
On a stern and rock-bound coast;
And the woods against a stormy sky,
Their giant branches toss'd.
Author: Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans
Source: Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers
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Hail, Columbia! happy land!
Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!
Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.
Author: Joseph Hopkinson
Source: Hail, Columbia!
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When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one
people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them
with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the
separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of
Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of
mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel
them to the separation.
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the
Pursuit of Happiness--That to secure these Rights, Governments
are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the
the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of
Government becomes destructive to these Ends, it is the Right of
the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new
Government, laying its foundation on such Principles and
and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem
most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. . . .
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Source: Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, beginning of
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The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this
endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the
glow from that fire can truly light the world.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Source: Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, beginning of
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