"America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture."

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"America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture."

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"Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that."

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"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."

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"I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount."

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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

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"America; a country that was discovered is now a discovery and making discoveries! America is America not because of the name America, but because of the great hands and minds who made the name America be America!"

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"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that."

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"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

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"No holidays, no country."

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"I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country."

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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

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"Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium."

Family

"Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me."

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"A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life."

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"Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind."

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"No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions."

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"I have pretty much made up my mind to do this."

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"In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root."

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"America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor."

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"My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance."

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"Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed."

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