1. Proverb - “They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing.”

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2. Proverb - “American as apple pie.”

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3. Proverb - “He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.”

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4. Proverb - “Where ambition ends happiness begins.”

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5. Proverb - “If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only.”

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6. Israel Zangwill - “America is God’s Crucible, the greatest Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming! ... God is making the American.”

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7. Thomas Clayton Wolfe - “To every man his chance — to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining, golden opportunity — to every man the right to live, to work, to be himself, and to become whatever thing his manhood and his vision can combine to make him — this, seeker, is the promise of America.”

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8. Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor - “The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.”

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9. Oscar Wilde - “Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.”

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10. Walt Whitman - “The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.”

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11. Edward Young - “They build too low who build beneath the skies.”

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12. Daniel Webster - “I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.”

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13. Booker T. Washington - “You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.”

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14. George Washington - “As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.”

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15. Bill Vaughan - “A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.”

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16. Unknown - “Plow deep while sluggards sleep.”

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17. Mark Twain - “It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.”

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18. Mark Twain - “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

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19. Lily Tomlin - “Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.”

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20. Charles Alexis Henri Clérel de Tocqueville - “America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

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21. Dr. Perle Thompson - “There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.”

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22. Gertrude Stein - “In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.”

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23. Robert Solow - “It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.”

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24. George Bernard Shaw - “Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.”

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25. George Santayana - “America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.”

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