Nellie McClung Quotes
Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries ahead of us in abolishing slavery and in extending full rights of citizenship to everyone, regardless of race.
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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
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May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
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There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they're going to exist. But they're losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters.
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As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests.
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I‘ve said it once and I will say it again, why can‘t everyone just speak English? The Americans give it a bit of a go — why can‘t other nations?
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Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.
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Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the need of earth, to the highness, the fullness and to the all-sufficiency of heaven.
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The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.
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Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.
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A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.
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Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words.
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And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others, and grant the rest of the citizens an equal share in both citizenship and offices.
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The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavour to keep them disunited.
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As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
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The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
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Nations are born out of travail and suffering.
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I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.
