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If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.

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Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.

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But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism.

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Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes.

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We would not have our country‘s vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world.

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We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

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I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether.

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I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.

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Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the relations of this country to Spain offer no ties of gratitude or of blood.

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It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction.

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We should never suffer Cuba to pass from the hands of Spain to any other European power.

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Contrast the United States with any country on the face of the earth today and ask yourself whether the situation of the United States is not the best to be found.

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The United States is the world’s best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.

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The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.

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True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

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The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their – shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit.

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Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world’s peace and to the welfare of mankind.

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