You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.


Redburn (1849), ch. 33

Herman Melville Quotes

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.