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"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair."
Arnold Toynbee
"There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong."
GK Chesterton
"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense...human rights invented America."
Jimmy Carter
"America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people."
Gloria Steinem
"We Americans have no commission from God to police the world."
Benjamin Harrison
"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
"What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it."
Hubert H. Humphrey
"The United States is the only country with a known birthday."
James G. Blaine
"We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit."
Hubert H. Humphrey
"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
"Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American."
Bill Clinton
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln
"Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea."
John Gunther
"We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution."
John F. Kennedy
"America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them."
James Michener
"Only Americans can hurt America."
Dwight Eisenhower
"When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect."
Adlai Stevenson
"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
"This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Today we can declare: Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We, the American people, we are the solution."
Bill Clinton
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