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[P]atriotism... is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but t
[P]atriotism… is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. – Adlai Stevenson

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. – Adlai Stevenson

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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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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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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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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world. – Herman Melville

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“Our country, right or wrong.” When right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right. – Carl Schurz

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I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If youre in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s. – Bob Barker

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The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. – Henry David Thoreau

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I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one. – Mike Krzyzewski

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