Quote by Herman Melville
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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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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation. – Herman Melville

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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. – Herman Melville

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

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My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America. – Val Saintsbury

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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. – Bill Vaughan

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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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The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth. – Bob Graham

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Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now. – Fiona Apple

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Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive. – Albert Schweitzer

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