Nation Quotes
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Never has our nation , or our world, stood on the precipice of adversity in such dire need of men answering the cry to rule well.
Tony Evans
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“War. There was now no point in a war that might once have been justified as a search for free subsistence and living space – it had degenerated into vast, inhuman mass slaughter, negating all cultural values, and it can never be justified to the German people; it will be utterly condemned by the nation as a whole. All the torturing of Poles under arrest, the shooting of prisoners of war and their bestial treatment – that can never be justified either.”
Wladyslaw Szpilman
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As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.
Abraham Lincoln
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Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.
Marianne Williamson
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To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.
Finley Peter Dunne
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The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.
Jonathan Swift
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Let us trust that all Mexicans, taught by the prolonged and painful experience of the calamities of war, will cooperate in the future for the wellbeing and the prosperity of the nation, which can only be obtained through an undoubted respect for the law and an obedience to the authorities elected by the people.
Benito Juarez
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I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.
Finley Peter Dunne
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It will take some time before a fully-fledged government, equivalent to that of a normal nation state, can be established ... The signs are, however, more hopeful than they were.
Jack Straw
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For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.
Sophocles
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Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
Bob Marley
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Malaysia didn't end up winning any gold medals at the Rio Olympics, but had set new records and brought the nation closer, so keep going.
Azran Osman Rani
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I want to make sure that we, as a nation, stay unified because that's how we're going to achieve our missions.
Barack Obama
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Turkey has put up a fight against the powerful nations of the world. The crusader mentality attacked us abroad. Inside, their lackeys attacked us. We didn't succumb. As a nation, we stood strong.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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The Hindus believe that there is no country but theirs. no nation like theirs, no king like theirs, no religion like theirs, no science like theirs.
Abu Rayhan al-Biruni
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I don't believe any amount of cost savings can justify leaving an entire quadrant of the nation defenseless, ... This decision ... could result in incalculable harm to our nation's security.
Olympia Snowe
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Oscar Wilde
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There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national armaments may be, they do not create military security for any nation nor do they guarantee the maintenance of peace.
Albert Einstein
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Like a great fool, I went ashore with them, and they gave me some cursed stuff they called gin, - such blasphemy I never heard! At first when they told me they had set up a great distillery of gin, I thought them very useful, clever, good men; for you know, captain, any nation might be converted by hollands; -but this was the unchristianest beastliest liquor I ever tasted, and it made me - as I feel now. Yet the foolish, idiot-people of the island think it very good, because it makes them mad-drunk, and they believe Heaven sent it; but it made me believe the devil had got amongst them.
Edward John Trelawny
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I am proud to announce these appointees who will help our state continue to flourish and be a leader in the nation. I would like to thank these leaders for being willing to serve our state and help us solve many of the big issues important to Tennesseans.
Bill Lee
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You can't run this nation like a town meeting.
Terry Sanford
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Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits
Napoleon Bonaparte