There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people.
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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.
Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
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