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J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur5 quotes
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 · 1782Men are like plants; the goodness and flavor of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow. — J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur · 1782Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. — J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur · 1782What then is the American, this new man? He is either a European, or the descendant of a European, hence that strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country... Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. — J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur · 1782They are plants that will grow in any soil that is cultivated by the hands of others; and, when once they have taken root, they will extinguish every other vegetable that grows around them... The most ignorant, the most bungling member of that profession, will, if placed in the most obscure part of the country, promote litigiousness, and amass more wealth without labor, than the most opulent farmer with all his toils. — J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur · 1782