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"The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods." »Maxine Hong Kingston
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"My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation." »Kahlil Gibran
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""The only way that I can see America ever becoming a strong nation again is to stop being a debtor nation and to begin spending less than is taxed on it's people."" »Tom Zegan
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"The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of continuing to be a nation at all would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory." »Salman Rushdie
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"Every nation determines its own destiny; the clever the nation, the better the fate!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." »Isaiah
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"Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God." »A. J. Toynbee
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"America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence." »Louis Pasteur
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"God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands." »George W. Bush, Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.
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"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth." »Abraham Lincoln
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"No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation." »Woodrow Wilson
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"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." »John F. Kennedy
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"If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world." »Chinese Proverb
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"No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices." »Edward R. Murrow
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"No nation was ever ruined by trade." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right." »Arthur Schopenhauer
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"You can tell the ideas of a nation by it's advertisements." »Douglas South Wind
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"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements." »Norman Douglas
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"Every nation ridicules other nations -- and all are right." »Arthur Schopenhauer
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"How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese" »Charles De Gaulle
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"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten." »Calvin Coolidge
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"Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea." »Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation." »Jane Austen
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"A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation." »Isaiah IX.22 Bible
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"No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap." »Thomas Jefferson
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"The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation." »Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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"Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of our racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it. Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations." »John Kennedy, Autobiography of malcolm x
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