“We have a great dream. It started way back in 1776, and God grant that America will be true to her dream.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
– John F. Kennedy
“Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair…” *
– George Washington
“The principle of free governments adheres to the American soil. It is bedded in it, immovable as its mountains.”
Daniel Webster
“Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest sleeping in the unplowed ground. Is our world gone? We say ‘Farewell.’ Is a new world coming? We welcome it–and we will bend it to the hopes of man.”
– Lyndon B. Johnson
“Every generation has the obligation to free men’s minds for a look at new worlds…to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.”
– Ellison S. Onizuka
“May God continue the unity of our country as this railroad unites the two great oceans of the world.”
– Inscribed on the Golden Spike, Promontory, Utah, 1869
“The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class–it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.”
– Anna Julia Cooper
* This was said by Washington at the Constitutional Convention. The full quote, written on the Arch at Washington Square Park is this:
“Let Us Raise a Standard to Which the Wise and Honest Can Repair. The event is in the hand of God.”
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