John Quincy Adams was stung by British sneers that the US was a “peddling nation” with “no God but gold.”

But we’ve shown them: The Brits are now attempt to “alarm the world at the gigantic grasp of our ambition.”

This is America’s future: “If the world do not hold us for Romans they will take us for Jews, and of the two vices I would rather be charged with that which has greatness mingled in its composition.”