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

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

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own. – Seneca

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland. – Harry Emerson Fosdick