America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.

—George W. Bush

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George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American former politician, businessman, and U.S. Air Force veteran who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000....

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When we're talking about war, we're really talking about peace.

—George W. Bush

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

—George W. Bush

The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.

—George W. Bush

By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.

—George W. Bush

America will never run… And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.

—George W. Bush

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America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused—preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

—George W. Bush

America is a young country with an old mentality.

—George Santayana

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

—Georg W. Hegel

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

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There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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