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.
America was established not to create wealth, but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
Property, as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
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