America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself

Americans have always been eager for travel, that being how they got to the New World in the first place.

America has meant to the world a land in which the common man who means well and is willing to do his part has access to all the necessary means of a good life

What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it

America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people