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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
-Oscar Wilde
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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.
-Oscar Wilde
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The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others -- this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples.
-George Will
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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.
-Woodrow Wilson
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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.
-Woodrow Wilson
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The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.
-Woodrow Wilson
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The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.
-Lin Yutang
The Importance of Living, 1937
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America is God
-Israel Zangwill
Melting Pot
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
-Zig Ziglar
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Books about America
