There is room for everybody in America; has he any particular talent or industry? He… — J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
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.
Letters from an American Farmer · 1782
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Current citation
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.
Original citation
Crevecoeur, Michel Guillaume Jean [published as J. Hector St. John]. "What Is an American?" Letters from an American Farmer. London: Davies & Davies, 1782.
