I dont know what happens to country.

Cormac McCarthy

Tags: loss frontier borders american-exceptionalism



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Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

Cormac McCarthy

Tags: liberty freedom justice liberalism mercy individualism frontier libertarianism solidarity the-west state-of-nature american-exceptionalism social-contract



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The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

Louis Simpson

Tags: liberty freedom liberalism capitalism satire individualism self-reliance frontier romanticism restlessness walt-whitman american-exceptionalism rootlessness



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So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way...

Poul Anderson

Tags: future science-fiction american-exceptionalism



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[American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.

Zbigniew Brzeziński

Tags: foreign-policy ignorance populism american-exceptionalism geopolitics american-people



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Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

Jacob M. Appel

Tags: nationalism patriotism birth american-exceptionalism patriots



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When the culture of the East, its chief characteristic, is added to the strength of body and the strength of mind of the agricultural center, its special contribution, and these two great characteristics are constantly imbued with the spirit of independence and love of liberty which lives in the hearts of the dwellers of the mountains, their main quality added to the national character, there is every reason to believe that we shall have a people and institutions such as will be permanent; with such wealth of resources, of such high education and intelligence, and of such vitality, of such longevity, of such devotion to freedom and hostility to centralization and tyranny as shall enable this Nation of ours to stand indefinitely; and to maintain in the future years its manifest destiny of leading the peoples and nations of earth in the principles of free government, constitutional security and individual liberty. Under these and under these alone, the faculties, the aspirations and inspirations of mankind may be unfolded into their full flowering to the fruition of an ever greater and more humane civilization.

Charles Edwin Winter

Tags: us-history frontier american-west american-exceptionalism manifest-destiny



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