“It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as [inherently] exceptional, whatever the motivation. There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.”
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“The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.”
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“Exceptionalism" is a shared self-description of imperial forms and . . . every empire imagines itself an exception.”
― Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History
― Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History
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