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Franklin Pierce1 quote

The striking incidents of your history, replete with instruction and furnishing abundant grounds for hopeful confidence, are comprised in a period comparatively brief. But if your past is limited, your future is boundless. Its obligations throng the unexplored pathway of advancement, and will be limitless as duration. — Franklin Pierce · 1853

Herbert Hoover1 quote

Ours is a land rich in resources; stimulating in its glorious beauty; filled with millions of happy homes; blessed with comfort and opportunity. In no nation are the institutions of progress more advanced. In no nation are the fruits of accomplishment more secure. In no nation is the government more worthy of respect. No country is more loved by its people. I have an abiding faith in their capacity, integrity, and high purpose. I have no fears for the future of our country. It is bright with hope. — Herbert Hoover · 1929

James Monroe1 quote

Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete. If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy. — James Monroe · 1817

John Quincy Adams1 quote

The forest has fallen by the ax of our woodsmen; the soil has been made to teem by the tillage of our farmers; our commerce has whitened every ocean. The dominion of man over physical nature has been extended by the invention of our artists. — John Quincy Adams · 1825

Martin Van Buren1 quote

In all the attributes of a great, happy, and flourishing people we stand without a parallel in the world. — Martin Van Buren · 1837

Richard Nixon1 quote

Let us be proud that our system has produced and provided more freedom and more abundance, more widely shared, than any system in the history of the world. — Richard Nixon · 1973