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Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in maters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.
-- Samuel Adams |
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For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a Hill. The eyes of all people are upon us; so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.
-- John Winthrop |
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Every American owns all America
-- Oliver Wendel Holmes |
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It is my loving sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment-Independence now and Independence forever.
-- Daniel Webster |
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It is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn what we have in common, and to come back with a richer, fuller understanding of America-in all its beauty, in all its dignity, in all its strength, in support of moral principle.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time the Japanese government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people
-- Woodrow Wilson |
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Let us remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
-- William McKinley |
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Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Members of the House, Members of the Senate, my fellow Americans, all I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.
-- Lyndon Baines Johnson |
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No system of government can hope long to survive the cynical disregard of both law and principle which government in America regularly exhibits.
-- Suzanne LaFollette |
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Now the only way to avoid this shipwreck and to provide for our posterity is to follow the counsel of Micah: to do justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with our God. For this end, we must be knit together in this work as one man. We must entertain each other in brotherly affection. We must be willing to abridge our selves of our superfluities, for the supply of others' necessities. We must uphold a familiar commerce together in all meekness, gentleness, patience, and liberality. We must delight in each other, make others' conditions our own-rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body. So shall we keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace.
-- John Winthrop |
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