Famous Quotes | Our institutions have a potent...

Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien. - Herman Melville
Attribution: Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “Supplement.” “Battle-Pieces” (1866), p. 465, Collected Poems of Herman Melville, ed. Howard P. Vincent (1947).

Categories: Aliens, Author, Immigration And Immigrants, Institutions

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