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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."
"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"
"The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them."
"What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself."
"There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country."
"They need to be re-supplied with energy, and that energy comes from asking not what your country can do for you, but from what you can do for your country."
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"Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous."
"We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing."
"We found on our journey, as well as in the place where we stopped, that they treated us with as much confidence and good-will as if they had known us all their lives."
"Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died."
"As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary."
"The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did."
"We found vines of a large size, and in some cases quite loaded with grapes; we also found an abundance of roses, which appeared to be like those of Castile."
"Father Fernando did every thing in his power to assist the sick; and although he arrived much reduced in flesh, he did not become ill, and is now well."
"The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as well as here, the country is neither rocky nor overrun with brush-wood."
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