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Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life. – James Garfield

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Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed. – James Garfield

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James Garfield
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The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions. – James Garfield

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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. – Woodrow Wilson

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There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream. – Archibald MacLeish

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America is a tune. It must be sung together. – Gerald Stanley Lee, Crowds

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

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