Quotes with nation-states

Quotes 481 till 500 of 622.

  • Noam Chomsky The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer The United States is evil. There's this axis of evil. What about the allies of evil - the United States, England, Japan, Australia? These are the evildoers.
    Press conference in Iceland, March 25 2005 [28]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Grover Cleveland The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
    Grover Cleveland
    American politician and lawyer (1837 - 1908)
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  • Colin Powell The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
    Colin Powell
    American elder statesman and four-star general (1937 - 2021)
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  • Barack Obama The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam
    Speech UN 24-09-2014
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Charles Evans Hughes The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
    Charles Evans Hughes
    American statesman and Republican politician (1862 - 1948)
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  • A. N. Wilson The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Noam Chomsky The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - ''indoctrination,'' we might say - exercised through the mass media.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Bob Ehrlich The United States Supreme Court has voted 6-3 that voter photo ID is constitutional.
    Bob Ehrlich
    American lawyer and politician (1957 - )
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  • Walt Whitman The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Edmund Burke The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate... Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Black Hawk The white men despise the Indians, and drive them from their homes. But the Indians are not deceitful. The white men speak bad of the Indian, and look at him spitefully. But the Indian does not tell lies; Indians do not steal. An Indian, who is as bad as the white men, could not live in our nation; he would be put to death, and eat up by the wolves.
    In: Biography and History of the Indians of North America Surrender speech in 1832
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  • Arthur Henderson The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bill McCollum There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.
    Bill McCollum
    American lawyer and politician (1944 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Bo Bennett There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Douglas Adams There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Grover Cleveland There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
    Grover Cleveland
    American politician and lawyer (1837 - 1908)
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