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America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears

America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I believe in America because we have great dreams – and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true. – Wendell L. Wilkie

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Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. – John Gunther

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Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him. – Giuseppe Mazzini

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Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name. – Woodrow Wilson

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