Quotes with nation-states

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  • Thurgood Marshall A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
    Thurgood Marshall
    American lawyer, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court (1908 - 1993)
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  • Hunter S. Thompson America is just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • John F. Kennedy Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Carl Levin Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Golda Meir A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Jimmy Carter A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • Georges Clemenceau America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • George F. Will As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Brent Scowcroft But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Adam Schiff Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Abraham Lincoln Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • George Washington Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Anita Loos That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Art Buchwald The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Ben Carson The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • E. B. White The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Arthur Laffer When you look at the world, everyone in the world who cares about his or her family wants to have a major portion of their assets in the United States because we are the growth country and the freedom loving country.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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