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I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

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Stewart Udall
Age: 90 †
Born: 1920
Born: January 31
Died: 2010
Died: March 20
American Politician
Lawyer
Politician
Writer
Saint Johns
Arizona
Stewart Lee Udall
American
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Principles

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If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.
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It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.
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If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present.
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