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The United States of America was originally an experiment. But it was an experiment in recognizing God-given individual liberty and creating a government in which we no one is deemed better than another. And in which all of us are equal. Not equal in abilities, but equal in intrinsic worth and value.

— Mike Huckabee

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

— Herbert Hoover

The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.

— Nathaniel Branden

Our nation was not founded because we all looked alike, or prayed alike, or descended from the same family tree. But our founders, in their genius, in this, the oldest constitutional democracy, put forth on this earth the idea that all are created equal; that we all have inalienable rights.

— Cory Booker

Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

— Jim Ryun

What I find most interesting about the U.S. is this idea of equality.

— Jorge Ramos

When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.

— Eliot Spitzer

We're constantly told that all cultures are equal, and that every belief system is as good as the next. And it led to a kind of - and generally, that America was to be known for its flaws rather than its virtues.

— Frank Miller

This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.

— Ernie Fletcher

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

— Brent Scowcroft

✗Opposing Perspectives

The United States exists as a sovereign nation. 'America,' in contrast, exists as a myth of democracy and equal opportunity to live by, or as an ideal goal to reach.

— Bharati Mukherjee