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Quote by Adlai Stevenson
America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political a

America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact – the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality. – Adlai Stevenson

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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. – Adlai Stevenson

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Do not… regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo? – Adlai Stevenson

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Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. – Louis D. Brandeis

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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. – William Faulkner

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It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism. – J. Horace McFarland

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The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic – have always blown on free men. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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