There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.

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Comparison is the thief of joy.

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He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.

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The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

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It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to them and not to their servants in office—any other theory is incompatible with the foundation principles of our government.

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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

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Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.

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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

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