“I think New Yorkers are more provocative in every way.”
Scott Adams (1957) cartoonist, writer
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“The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.”
Speech in the First Continental Congress, Philadelphia (14 October 1774). Compare: "I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American!", Daniel Webster, Speech, July 17, 1850.
1770s, Speech in the First Continental Congress (1774)
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