Quotes with nation-states

Quotes 441 till 460 of 622.

  • Benjamin Graham The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.
    Storage and Stability Part V, Ch. XIX, The Reservoir Plan and Tradition,
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Andrew Jackson The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Mikhail Strabo The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels.
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  • Harry S. Truman The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Aaron Allston The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
    Aaron Allston
    American game designer and author (1960 - 2014)
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  • Betty Friedan The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of her
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Caleb Cushing The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • C. Wright Mills The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali The real problem was not the troops; the real problem was that only the United States had the infrastructure to do the transport of troops with big planes, and then who will pay?
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of - it's just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Carlo Azeglio Ciampi The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.
    Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
    Italian politician and banker (1920 - 2016)
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  • Belle Boyd The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.
    Belle Boyd in camp and prison
    Belle Boyd
    American Confederate spy (1844 - 1900)
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  • Ben Nelson The security of our nation depends on the men and women who are willing to sacrifice their safety, and possibly their lives, to protect the freedoms the rest of us enjoy.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Ann Macbeth The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • David Lloyd George The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.
    David Lloyd George
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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  • Confucius The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Lydia Sigourney The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.
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  • Carter G. Woodson The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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