I believe that Los Angeles is destined to become, in not many years, a world-center, prominent in almost every field of human endeavor; and that, as nineteen hundred years ago the humblest Roman, wherever he might find himself, would glow with pride when he said, “I am a Roman!” so, in the years to come, will the son of the metropolis on these shores, wheresoever his travels may take him, be proud to declare,
“I AM A CITIZEN OF LOS ANGELES!”
Harris Newmark, Sixty Years in Southern California, p 651. fourth ed., 1970. (First edition: 1917). (via jetjocko)
