"America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy."

Brent Scowcroft, American Public Servant

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"America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy."

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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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"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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"I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America."

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"Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar."

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"All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America."

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"Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten."

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"Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking."

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"As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America."

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