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"Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England."
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"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here."
"Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks."
"In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north."
"A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas."
"Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England."
"Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch."
"Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones."
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"Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there."
"To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers."
"There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream."
"We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves."
"Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold."
"What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice."
"Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world."
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