There is room for everybody in America; has he any particular talent or industry? He exerts it in order to procure a livelihood, and it succeeds.

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

Letters from an American Farmer

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America

Author

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

Source

Letters from an American Farmer

Language

English

Time

1782 1780s 18th century

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Crevecoeur, Michel Guillaume Jean [published as J. Hector St. John]. "What Is an American?" Letters from an American Farmer. London: Davies & Davies, 1782.

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Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John. "Letters From an American Farmer." Letters From an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America, edited by Albert E. Stone. Penguin Classics, 1981.

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Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 6, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1789, ch. 52.

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O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet—
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