“New York is part of the natural world. I love the city, I love the country, and for the same reasons. The city is part of the country. When I had an apartment on East Forty-Eighth Street, my backyard during the migratory season yielded more birds than I ever saw in Maine.”

Lenny Bruce http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3345229.stm

Interview conducted by David Sylvester for the BBC, 1962; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics, edited by Clifford Ross, Abrahams Publishers, New York 1990, p. 48.
1960's

"Miss Universe Captivates New York" (1976)

"Musical Autobiography" (1950); cited from Ursula Vaughan Williams RVW (1964) p. 30.

1770s, Common Sense (1776)
Context: The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth. 'Tis not the affair of a city, a country, a province, or a kingdom, but of a continent—of at least one eighth part of the habitable globe. 'Tis not the concern of a day, a year, or an age; posterity are virtually involved in the contest, and will be more or less affected, even to the end of time, by the proceedings now. Now is the seed time of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; The wound will enlarge with the tree, and posterity read it in full grown characters.

&quot;The Will Arnett Interview,&quot; Television Without Pity (2005) http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/articles/content/a1005/index-1.html <br class="br">2005

Source: 1 x 1 (1944), XXXVIII
Source: Selected Poems

1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989), Farewell Address (1989)

Source: Prep (2005), p. 321