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Oscar Straus Quotes:

Oscar Straus quotes

Ocupation: Politician

Life: December 23, 1850 - May 3, 1926

Birthday: December 23

Death: May 3

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This is the first nation that organized government on the basis of universal liberty with a free Church and a free State. This meant much at the time; it means much now and will continue to be the beacon of light and guidance for ourselves and of other nations. All that is good and practical and wise in the new developments can best be worked out under our form of government without destroying any of the basic principles upon which it rests.

Topics: Wise, Mean, Light, Beacons, Free State

quote there is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism and that higher form is not limited oscar straus Quotes

There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization.

Topics: Country, Civilization, Patriotism, Patriotism And Nationalism

The Jew is neither a newcomer nor an alien in this country or on this continent; his Americanism is as original and ancient as that of any race or people with the exception of the American Indian and other aborigines. He came in the caravels of Columbus, and he knocked at the gates of New Amsterdam only thirty-five years after the Pilgrim Fathers stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock.

source: - Oscar Solomon Straus (1913). “The American Spirit”

Topics: Country, Father, Race, Plymouth, Plymouth Rock

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