Quotes with nation-states

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  • Candice Millard 'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • Anna Louise Strong A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Arthur Miller A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Arthur Miller A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Barbara Jordan A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
    Barbara C. Jordan--selected speeches
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Woodrow Wilson A little group of willful men reflecting no opinion but their own have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • André Maurois A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
    inaugurele rede 14-8-1947
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Sydney Smith A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Barbara Jordan A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Edmund Burke A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Andrew William Mellon A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.
    Andrew William Mellon
    American banker and businessman
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  • James Joyce A nation is the same people living in the same place.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Abdelaziz Bouteflika A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.
    Abdelaziz Bouteflika
    Algerian politician (1937 - )
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  • Bill Owens A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Simone Weil A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • George Orwell A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bill McKibben A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do - namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Albert Pike A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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