Nation Quotes
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Grief is a nation of everyone, a country without borders. I roam the avenues of it out of habit.
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Every nation has a palladium of its own embodying past and future history. Ever since my boyhood I felt and saw in the architectural lines of St. Vitus Cathedral built so close to the castle, a powerful interpretation of our national symbol.
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My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.
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Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.
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The English are a nation of consummate cant.
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The State dominates the Nation because it alone represents it.
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It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation.
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To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but the very moment the balance of power gets into the hands of second-rate men and women, a decline of that nation is inevitable.
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No other nation killed people the way the United States did to end slavery.
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When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.
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If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.
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No nation is wise enough to rule another.
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Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.
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The Jews detests the spirit of the nation in the midst of which they live.
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Thomas Jefferson understood the greater purpose of the liberty that our Founding Fathers sought during the creation of our Nation. Although it was against the British that the colonists fought for political rights, the true source of the rights of man was clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson wrote that all humans are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights . . . . It was self-evident to him that denying these rights was wrong and that he and others must struggle to win what was theirs.
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Serbia has become a pariah nation, untouchable like a leper.
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Husker nation!! Can you feel it!
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The heart of assimilation process of absorbing minorities lies in the self-image of a nation. There are, as you will know, big differences for instance between the self-image of the French and the English. And the Germans, in accordance with their rather chequered history, had at least in the past very little capacity for absorbing minorities.
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Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.
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Die breite Masse einesVolkes?einer groÞen Lu« ge leichter zum Opfer f a« llt als einer kleinen. The broad mass of a nation?will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.
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The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.
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The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world.
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It is done. We are a nation and we will ride. Tonight, let no man think of his tribe and mourn. We are a greater family and all lands are ours to take.
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Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.
