America
1."The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people."
-Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

2. "Here once the embattled farmers stood, and fired the shot heard round the world."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Concord Hymn

6. The Transcendentalists wanted to create something distinctly American.