| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 39053 |
| QUOTATION: | We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people—the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. White-Jacket (1850), ch. 36, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 5, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Melville Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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