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America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

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Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States.

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The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

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There are at the present time two great nations in the world, which started from different points, but seem to tend towards the same end. I allude to ...more