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"She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind."
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"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."

"Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured."

"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."

"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."

"Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real."

"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."

"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
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"Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin."

"Contrast the United States with any country on the face of the earth today and ask yourself whether the situation of the United States is not the best to be found."

"Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate."

"For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism."

"Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind."

"Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence."

"Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin."

"You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life."

"Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the relations of this country to Spain offer no ties of gratitude or of blood."
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