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"We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world."
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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."

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."

"Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country's well-being."
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"For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism."

"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."

"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."

"Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive."

"New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions."

"Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America."

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