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"I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism."
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"Life is must be filled with endless hope."
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"Do not be bitter over the past. Believe in a brighter future."
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"He found that the business of optimism was no mean task."
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"Countless possibilities exist in any situation. You must maintain a positive outlook to see the miraculous possibilities."
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"Win them with your infectious optimism and burning smile."
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"If the world gives you a thousand reasons to cry, find a thousand and one reasons to smile."
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"This world is not a wonderful place where unfortunately many evil things happen, but this world is a terrible place where fortunately many miracles and other wonderful things happen."
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"Whether your glass is half full or half empty, hope can fill it up."
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"Don't see anything impossible! This simple philosophy will enable many things to be possible!"
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"...it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner."
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"I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism."
Optimism


"The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter."
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"The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise."
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"The average American is nothing if not patriotic."
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"Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less."
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"The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal."
Life


"To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity."
Life


"Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith."
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"The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights."
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"Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise."
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