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Intellectually I know America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

— Sinclair Lewis

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Slow yellow river flowing, willows that gesture in tepid August airs, and four children playing at greatness, as, doubtless, great men themselves must play.

Ann Vickers (1933)

It is not what he feels and aspires that moves him primarily; it is what the folks about him will think of him.

describing the protagonist of Babbitt (1922)

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

Gideon Planish (1943)

Is it possible that nobody has ever known—that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

The God-Seeker (1949)

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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

Nathan Hale

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

Arthur C. Clarke The Exploration of Space (1951)

Our country – In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right, and always successful, right or wrong.

Stephen Decatur

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Barbara Ehrenreich

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