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The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

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I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

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America is a young country with an old mentality.

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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.

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There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.

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Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

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Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

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America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

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When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

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I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

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