Guns and dollars have their place. At times they are essential. But they must not be permitted to crowd out of preeminent position in our affairs the humanitarian idealism that brought our Republic into being. led to its expansion across a continent and far into the Pacific Ocean and made it a place of refuge and opportunity for 42 million immigrants. It would remind us. too. that American citizenship is for most of us a heritage of birth. an act of God for which we can claim no personal responsibility. The heritage carries with it responsibility but certainly no right to exclude others.
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