Quotes with nation-states

Quotes 561 till 580 of 622.

  • Herbert Hoover We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • David Mamet We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ''censorship,'' we call it ''concern for commercial viability.''
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • John Ruskin We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bennie Thompson We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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  • Abdul Kalam We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Anna Lindh We need a reform of the Security Council. It must be perceived as truly representative by all the 191 member states, to uphold the credibility and legitimacy of the UN as the main political arena.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Bob Taft We stand strong together - as Americans - many cultures, races and faiths, but one nation under God.
    Bob Taft
    American politician and attorney (1942 - )
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  • Anais Nin We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Brigham Young We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Bill Nelson We will fly again. It's important to us as adventurers and explorers... The nation needs a vision.
    Bill Nelson
    American attorney and politician (1942 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Asa Hutchinson We would certainly welcome the recipient nation to put their inspectors on our shores, if they wanted to make that investment to help protect that shipment that is outgoing.
    Asa Hutchinson
    American businessman, attorney, and politician (1950 - )
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  • Bob Menendez We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Bob Holden We're only one of a few states that have maintained our Triple-A bond rating from the major rating agencies.
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  • Ann Coulter We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Bill Dedman Wellesley's president, Nannerl Overholser Keohane, approved a broad rule with a specific application: The senior thesis of every Wellesley alumna is available in the college archives for anyone to read - except for those written by either a 'president or first lady of the United States.'
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Aslan Maskhadov Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia.
    Aslan Maskhadov
    Chechen politician (1951 - 2005)
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