Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that had been created by Catholic Christianity.
America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpassed it after the chaos of World War II.
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
Americans think that they have a history, but it's nothing compared to Europe.
Europe existed before Britain joined it.
The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.
Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
I don't know how you talk about the founding of America, and what became of the United States, without talking about religious doctrine.
Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.