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We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

— Aldo Leopold

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

— Leonard Cohen

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

— Nelson Mandela

We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.

— Bob Taft

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

— Oscar Wilde

Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world.

— Najib Mikati

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

— Henry Cabot Lodge

To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.

— Charles Inglis

✗Opposing Perspectives

We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.

— Martin Van Buren

We live in the world's greatest democracy; we want for nothing. And that which we want, we can work toward achieving.

— Joe Garcia

We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.

— Alexander Mackenzie