We want the spirit of America to be efficient we want American character to be efficient we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action.
We want the spirit of America to be efficient we want American character to be efficient we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action.
In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of government.
America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
America is not a mere body of traders it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.
America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.
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.
There is no question what the roll of honor in America is. The roll of honor consists of the names of men who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American.
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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