Michel Guillaume Jean de CrevecoeurThinkers

America is a country where 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.

America is a country where, if thou wilt be honest, sober, and industrious, it has greater rewards to confer on thee-ease and independence.

America is a country where the European visitor very suddenly alters his scale... 200 miles formerly appeared a very great distance, it is now but a trifle... he no sooner breathes our air than he forms schemes, and embarks on designs he never would have thought of in his own country. There the plentitude of society confines many useful ideas, and often extinguishes the most laudable schemes which here ripen into maturity.

The America is a new kind of man, either a european, or a descendant of a european, hence that strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country.