"Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done."
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"There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America."
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"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."
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"Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family."
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"As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality."
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"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
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"America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us..."
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"I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit."
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"Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave?"
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"We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done."
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"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain."
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"How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?"
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"Every humane and patriotic heart must grieve to see a bloody and causeless rebellion, costing thousands of human lives and millions of treasure. But as it was predetermined and inevitable, it was long enough delayed. Now is the appropriate time to solve the greatest problem ever submitted to civilized man."
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"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."
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"To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race."
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"I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity."
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"A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference."
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"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."
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"Fear is the foundation of most governments."
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"What are eight million dollars compared to the love of eight million Cubans?"
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