If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.
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How nations and races of men are to be so governed as may be most conducive to the improvement and happiness of all is one of the most interesting questions that can be offered to our consideration.
We will decide who comes to our country.
I think the American people should express their preferences, and we'll accept their choice.
Think independently and put the country first.
No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
We will be a country of generosity and warmth. But we will also be a country of law and order.
It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect in the character of the public men of America that there is that real want of independence; and, in this respect, a most marked contrast exists between public men in this country and in Great Britain.
Creating a nation requires the will of the people!
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