My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
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If you want to be free, there is but one way it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. there is no other.Carl Schurz
Consider if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you will have to incorporate their people too
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Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
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Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right.
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Ideals are like stars you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
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