Quotes of Mayflower - somelinesforyou

“ I am glad my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, but I am gladder that there are nine generations between us. ”

- William Lyon Phelps

“ My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat. ”

- Will Rogers

“ All of our people all over the country — except the pure-blooded Indians — are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles, whether they came yesterday or walked this land a thousand years ago our great challenge for the 21st century is to find a way to be One America… ”

- Bill Clinton

“ The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon… ”

- Daniel J. Boorstin
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