Famous quotes containing the words told, israel and/or national:
“There was a young man of Japan
Whose limericks never would scan.
When folks told him so,
He replied, “Yes, I know,
But I always try to get as many words into the last line as I possibly can.””
—Anonymous.
“We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people—the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has made us believe, as perhaps no nation before us has ever believed, that, given the slimmest chance, all peoples will pattern themselves upon our model.”
—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)
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