The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted... a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together...    Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one

But if he was born again and again, and again and again he was to die, even then, victorious man, do not grieve.