“The idea of American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional.”
Maureen Dowd (1952) American journalist
New York Times column (September 20, 2008)
“As a third generation American I grew up with the obsessive idea of personal liberty which engrosses all Americans except the oldest and richest families.”
The Poems of a Jew (1958)
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Robert L. Heilbroner book The Worldly Philosophers
Source: The Worldly Philosophers (1953), Chapter X, The Modern World, p. 281
John McCain (1936–2018) politician from the United States
2010s, 2016, Statement regarding the Khan family (1 August 2016)
“I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
April 15, 1778, p. 392
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Dennis Prager (1948) American writer, speaker, radio and TV commentator, theologian
Dennis Prager. Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph https://books.google.com/books?id=aAFSQWdwexEC, 2012. <br class="br">2010s
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Letter to Thomas Jefferson, 28 June 1813. Often misquoted as "The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity"
1810s
Context: The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence, were … the general principles of Christianity, in which all those sects were united, and the general principles of English and American liberty, in which all those young men united, and which had united all parties in America, in majorities sufficient to assert and maintain her independence. Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God; and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane system.
Edward Sapir (1884–1939) American linguist and anthropologist
In a letter dated August 1, 1918
Context: Getting down to brass tacks, how in the Hell are you going to explain general American n- 'I' except genetically? It's disturbing, I know, but (more) non-committal conservatism is only dodging, after all, isn't it? Great simplifications are in store for us. … It seems to me that only now that is American linguistics becoming really interesting, at least in its ethnological bearings.
“I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for truth my obsession”
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) American photographer
From Adams to Stieglitz' (1990)
Source: 'Alfred Stieglitz' Photo notes, August 1946, p. 65
