idealistic quotes

   We dislike the IRA, most of us, and fear it.We are a peaceful and democratic people.But our history, our idealistic pretensions and our fatal ambivalence have stuck us with an ideology that is warlike and anti- democratic, and calls increasingly for further human sacrifice.

-Joyce Carol Oates
  In the NewYork Review of Books, 29  Apr.

People call meanidealist.That ishow Iknow that Iaman American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

- (Thomas) Woodrow Wilson
  Speech, Sioux Falls, 8 Sep.