1. O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shinning sea!
-Katharine Lee Bates,
America the Beautiful
2. I pledge the allegiance to the flag of United States and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
-James B. Upham And
Francis Bellany,
Pledge to the flag
3. America is a country of young men.
-Emerson
4. Hail, Columbia! happy land!
Hail, ye heroes! heaven born band!
Who fought and bled in freedom's cause.
-Joseph Hopkinson, Hail,
Columbia
5. America is a tune it must be sung together.
-Gerald, Stanley Lee,
Crowds
6. Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of 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!
-Longfellow, Building of
the Ship
7. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
-Douglas MacArthur
8. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.
-Daniel Webster
9. 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 drop of its own weight out of his name.
-Woodrow Wilson
10. The generations of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
-F. D. Roosevelt,
Speech, 1936
11. 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 arrived. He is only in the crucible, I tell you-he will be the fusion of all races, the common superman.
-Israel Zangwill
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