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"But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants."
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"If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react."
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"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."
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"The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts."
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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."
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"In America you need a bodyguard to go out."
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"America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are."
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"When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find."
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"I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps."
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"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."
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"If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong."
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"I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community."
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"One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves."
People

"There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure."
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"We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done."
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"A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation."
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"In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more."
People

"I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people.""
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"A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good."
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"What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance."
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"It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision."
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