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[[Dinesh D'Souza]] wrote:

[[Dinesh D'Souza]] wrote:

*The notion that in many respects America is unique in the world in called American "exceptionalism."<ref> [http://www.amazon.com/Roots-Obamas-Rage-Dinesh-DSouza/dp/1596986255 The Roots of Obama's Rage]</ref>

*The notion that in many respects America is unique in the world in called American "exceptionalism."<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Roots-Obamas-Rage-Dinesh-DSouza/dp/1596986255 The Roots of Obama's Rage]</ref>

==History==

==History==

{{quotation|Many important observations suggest themselves upon the social condition of the Anglo-Americans, '''but there is one which takes precedence of all the rest'''. The social condition of the Americans is eminently democratic; '''this was its character at the foundation of the Colonies, and is still more strongly marked at the present day'''.<ref>[[Alexis de Tocqueville]], ''Democracy in America'', Volume 1, page 42</ref>}}

{{quotation|Many important observations suggest themselves upon the social condition of the Anglo-Americans, '''but there is one which takes precedence of all the rest'''. The social condition of the Americans is eminently democratic; '''this was its character at the foundation of the Colonies, and is still more strongly marked at the present day'''.<ref>[[Alexis de Tocqueville]], ''Democracy in America'', Volume 1, page 42</ref>}}

[[Edmund Burke]], who is sometimes referred to as the Father of Conservatism, wrote about what made Americans truely exceptional.  He said: "They augur misgovernment at a distance; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze."<ref name=conciliation>[http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch1s2.html Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies]</ref>  What he means is that early Americans did not wait for government to hurt them, they kept an eye out in advance.  Patrick Henry told Americans<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-S0LAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA65 Orations of American orators, Volume 25]</ref> to "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel", and Burke confirms that they did exactly that.

[[Edmund Burke]], who is sometimes referred to as the Father of Conservatism, wrote about what made Americans truly exceptional.  He said: "They augur misgovernment at a distance; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze."<ref name=conciliation>[http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch1s2.html Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies]</ref>  What he means is that early Americans did not wait for government to hurt them, they kept an eye out in advance.  Patrick Henry told Americans<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-S0LAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA65 Orations of American orators, Volume 25]</ref> to "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel", and Burke confirms that they did exactly that.

{{quotation|In this character of the Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole: and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth.<ref name=conciliation />}}

{{quotation|In this character of the Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole: and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth.<ref name=conciliation />}}

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==External Links==

==External links==

* [http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_041210/content/01125108.guest.html American Exceptionalism Still on Display at Horatio Alger Dinner]

* [http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_041210/content/01125108.guest.html American Exceptionalism Still on Display at Horatio Alger Dinner]

==See Also==

==See also==

* [[American Dream]]

* [[American Dream]]

* [[American Enlightenment]]

* [[American Enlightenment]]

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