Interest does not tie nations together, it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding

Interest does not tie nations together, it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

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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.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

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.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.

The question “what shall we do about it” is only asked by those who do not understand the problem.