“It seems it always happens. Whenever we get too high-hat and too sophisticated for flag-waving, some thug nation decides we’re a push-over all ready to be blackjacked. And it isn’t long before we’re looking up, mighty anxiously, to be sure the flag’s still waving over us.”

– George M. Cohan (James Cagney), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), screenplay by Robert Buckner and Edmund Joseph, story by Robert Buckner