George Bernard Shaw Quotes

I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.

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I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had.
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Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.
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By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?
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I'm actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation.
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The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.
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Kansas City is one of the most convenient airports in the nation.
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A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
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I hope that I have had some effect on the fact that Israel is a start-up nation.
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This nation loves singing and loves acting.
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My dream is to see India as a nation of well-looked-after and respected sportspeople in all fields.
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I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.
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We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.
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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
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Infrastructure sector is all about building assets for the country. It is part of nation building.
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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
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I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.
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The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.
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Our nation was founded with a bunch of founding legislators who joined together to move our country out of the blocks and get us started, and every generation since then has found a way to advance the ball down the field.
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I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation and development of our great nation.
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My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all, better than it can ever be done again, and to find out what remains for us to do, and plenty does remain, for if we still feel the same emotions as those who launched a thousand ships, it is quite certain that we came on these feelings differently, through different nuances, by different intellectual gradations. Each age has its own abounding gifts yet only some ages transmute them into matters of duration.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.