Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.
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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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The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal.
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The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.
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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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