Edited sentence: " He famously intoned that "I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.Americans in his eyes were thieves in their relations with Indigenous peoples and African slaves: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes.Not all early European criticism was irrational.Samuel Johnson hit upon one theme that, in various forms, has long defined Anti-American sentiment: the perceived hypocricy of a freedom-loving people engaged in less than admirable practices