“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.”
— Walt Whitman
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The greatness of the United States comes mostly from its everyday people, not just from its leaders, politicians, ambassadors, writers, schools, churches, or even newspapers and inventors.
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