The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it's representative of Holland, but only a part of it - you know, it's more extreme, there's more happening, it's more liberal and more daring than the countryside in Holland is.
On this day, so full for Americans of thoughts connected with their National Independence, we may not forget that Americans have yet other grounds for gratitude to the people of the Netherlands.
If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.
Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome.
America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.
The United States exists as a sovereign nation. 'America,' in contrast, exists as a myth of democracy and equal opportunity to live by, or as an ideal goal to reach.
America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'
In the world over, the very name of our country is immediately associated with the Parthenon.
The United States of America was formed to honor the word of God.