The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

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The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.

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In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.

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Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

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American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

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Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.

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Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

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The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.

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Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

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I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

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