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"The barriers of time and space vanish. All America that ever was and ever will be lives every moment..." – Richard McKenna, "The Sand Pebbles" (1962)
"Beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties. Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee!" – Katharine Bates, "America the Beautiful" (1904)
"Oh, Columbia! The gem of the ocean; the home of the brave and the free. The shrine of each patriot's devotion; a world offers homage to thee." – Thomas à Becket, "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" (1843)
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and…
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