"In a word, if this country can..." - Quote by George Washington
In a word, if this country can steer clear of European politics, stand firm on its bottom, and be wise and temperate in its government, it bids fair to be one of the greatest and happiest nations in the world.
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“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.”
“From thinking proceeds speaking; thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous!”
“This spirit [of Party], unfortunately, is inseperable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human Mind. It exists under different shapes in all Governments, more or less stifled, controuled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy.”
More on Nation
“The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the very bloodstream of our nation. It keeps the mind and body of our democracy eternally vital, eternally young.”
“Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.”
“What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.”
More on Foreign Policy
“I think most Americans are ready for waging peace and not just brutalizing our foreign policy which is boomeranging against us.”
“Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.”
“We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.”