"Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!"

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"Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!"

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"Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that."

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"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."

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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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"America; a country that was discovered is now a discovery and making discoveries! America is America not because of the name America, but because of the great hands and minds who made the name America be America!"

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"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that."

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"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"No holidays, no country."

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"I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country."

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"Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete."

Government

"To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people."

People

"By these purchases the Indian title, with moderate reservations, has been extinguished to the whole of the land within the limits of the State of Ohio, and to a part of that in the Michigan Territory and of the State of Indiana."

Land

"I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis."

Society

"By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry."

Man

"In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence."

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"At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country."

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"Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will."

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"If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy."

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"The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation."

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