"I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations."

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"I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations."

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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."

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"The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it."

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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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"If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description."

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"True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us."

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"I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether."

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"I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations."

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"If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V is right, then everything for which the United States stands and has always stood is wrong."

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"We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands."

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