Nations Quotes
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The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.
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In the life of nations, what in the last resort decides questions is a kind of Judgment Court of God... Always before god and the world the stronger has the right to carry through what he wills.
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Anybody from the public can come in and observe ballots being processed and those votes being counted in elections officials' offices in any county in any state in the nation.
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The conscience of this nation is the Constitution.
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Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.
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The Niobe of nations! there she stands.
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It is now time for our nation to frustrate the wild dreams of the whites.
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Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.
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Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states? If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being denounced as in a state of impermissible ‘anarchy’, why may not the South secede from the United States? New York State from the Union? New York City from the state? Why may not Manhattan secede? Each neighbourhood? Each block? Each house? Each person?
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By choosing a woman to run for your nation's second highest office, you send a powerful signal to all Americans. There are no doors we cannot unlock. We will place no limits on achievement.
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The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.
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Iraq is a small but very proud nation.
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Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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The United Nations ... [is] a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans.
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Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.
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It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with the nation of Israel.
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Verily I say unto you all: Arise and shine forth, that thy light may be a standard for the nations.
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Intellectual property has become very, very important to both developed and developing nations.
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Binding emissions targets for the developing nations are out of the question.
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How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.
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The future of this nation depends on the Christian training of our youth.
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It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory.
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Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose acts are the acts of a man; who is present in some places, not in others; who makes no places holy and not others; who is kind to one person, unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse to him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrifice of a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. This, whatever form of faith it colors, is the essence of superstition.
