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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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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Patriotism
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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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Generations
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Let freedom never perish in your hands. – Joseph Addison

The United States is the only country with a known birthday. – James G. Blaine

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. – Simone de Beauvoir

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful. – Malcolm Forbes

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Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as its true for people, its also true on a national or cultural level. – David Mitchell

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relationship

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. – Frederick Douglass

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Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious. – William Feather

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