Quotes About Exceptionalism

If all countries are exceptional, the word loses its meaning.

And yet she was wholly herself: a rarity.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

Mediocritatea este plaga civilizatiei. Dar mediocritatea il face atat de comun, incat devine iesit din comun.

You're not like anyone else, Billy - that's what's the matter with you, Donna said.

In the United States, the story is particularly one of a handful of extraordinary people, of whom Paul Lewis is one.

Don't tolerate any form of average. Don't accept Dis-excellence. Don't stand for mediocre. If you're going to settle, then please settle for the absolute best.

You don't become the Best by being like the rest.

Society celebrates mediocrity so much that it does not take much to set yourself above the rest.

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.

Its so funny how we set qualifications for the right person to love, while at the back of our minds we know that the person we truly love will always be an exception

We can excuse almost anything in America except losing. And we love a freak show.

People who have outrageous skills and abilities are the gold nuggets in the river bed of human history.

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

We all know that America is the worst country in the world, except for all the others.

The tall tales we unthinkingly absorb when young somehow remain within; the result is a narrowly conceived sense of national belonging productive of the most uncompromising of satisfying myths: "American exceptionalism." We are unique and different, and the absence of class is one of our hallmarks.

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.

She was the only ungirdled girl to work on the main loom, the only one tall enough. The only one with the pattern-making mind, her mother said. The one one without a gemæcce.

She was taller than all the unmatched girls, even the ones with breast buds, just as her mother was taller than the queen and Cian was unusually tall for a boy with a wealh mother.

The American is not intolerable because he believes he is important individually, but because he possesses, insofar as he is an American, the solution to every problem.