Paul Johnson, A history of the American people, 1999ª ed., New York, HarperPerennial, p. 32, ISBN 0060930349, OCLC 40984521.
«These early diaries and letters, which are plentiful, and the fact that most important documents about the early American colonies have been preserved, mean that the United States is the first nation in human history whose most distant origins are fully recorded.»
