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Asylum of the oppressed of every nation.

O, Columbia, the gem of the ocean, The home of the brave and the free, The shrine of each patriot's devotion, A world offers homage to them.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Prosperity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.

Yet, still, from either beach, The voice of blood shall reach, More audible than speech, "We are one!"

From many to make one.

America! half brother of the world! With something good and bad of every land.

O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountains majesties Above the fruited plain. America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.

I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger.

I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.

Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, Out where the smile swells a little longer, That's where the West begins.

The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America.

The North! the South! the West! the East! No one the most and none the least, But each with its own heart and mind, Each of its own distinctive kind, Yet each a part and none the whole, But all together form one soul, That soul Our Country at its best, No North, no South, no East, no West, No yours, no mine, but always Ours, Merged in one Power our lesser powers, For no one's favor, great or small, But all for Each and each for All.

Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world and the child of the skies! Thy genius commands thee, with rapture behold, While ages on ages thy splendors unfold.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Bring me men to match my mountains, Bring me men to match my plains, Men with empires in their purpose, And new eras in their brains.

Wake up America.