Ideals Are Like The Stars: We Never

Consider: If You Incorporate Those Tropical Countries With The Republic Of The United States, You Will Have To Incorporate Their People Too.

Ideas Are Like Stars; You Will Not Succeed In Touching Them With Your Hands. But Like The Seafaring Man In The Desert Of Waters, You Choose Them As Your Guides, And Following Them You Will Reach You Destiny. Perhaps You Could Get A Clearer Idea Of Our Destiny If We Took Time Out To Examine Our Ideas, And Upgraded Them If Necessary. What Things Are Most Important To You? If You Could Do Anything You Wanted To Be, What Would You Be? If You Could Achieve A Single Objective In Life, What Would It Be?

I Have Always Been In Favor Of A Healthy Americanization, But That Does Not Mean A Complete Disavowal Of Our German Heritage. It Means That Our Character Should Take On The Best Of That Which Is American, And Combine It With The Best Of That Which Is German. By Doing This, We Can Best Serve The American People And Their Civilization.

Our Ideals Resemble The Stars, Which Illumintate The Night. No One Will Ever Be Able To Touch Them. But The Men Who, Like The Sailors On The Ocean, Take Them For Guides, Will Undoubtedly Reach Their Goal.

The Senator From Wisconsin Cannot Frighten Me By Exclaiming, My Country, Right Or Wrong. In One Sense I Say So Too. My Country; And My Country Is The Great American Republic. My Country, Right Or Wrong; If Right, To Be Kept Right; And If Wrong, To Be Set Right.