Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Millions upon millions of people came here full of hope and aspiration to this extraordinary land of liberty and opportunity, and helped build the United States. So the Atlantic Ocean was absolutely critical to the story of America.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
America does not fight for land, glory or riches.
I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.
We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.
We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability.
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
It is impossible to think of a world in which America was not there in the honorable service of humanity.
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.