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The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. _ Don Herold
The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".
Your pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great; your country becomes great because of your pride in it. ― Idowu Koyenikan
While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and destroyed records rather than have to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. ― Pearl S. Buck
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail. The religion and public liberty of a people are intimately connected; their interests are interwoven, they cannot subsist separately; and therefore they rise and fall together. For this reason, it is always observable, that those who are combin'd to destroy the people's liberties, practice every art to poison their morals.
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
What is most important of this grand experiment, the United States? Not the election of the first president but the election of its second president. The peaceful transition of power is what will separate this country from every other country in the world.
