Quotes with nation-states

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  • Cass Sunstein Antonin Scalia was witty, warm, funny, and full of life. He was not only one of the most important justices in the nation's history; he was also among the greatest.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Alain Juppe Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.
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  • Adolfo Aguilar Zinser Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.
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  • William Somerset Maugham Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Bob McDonnell Are we a nation of guarantees or are we a nation of opportunities to achieve the American dream?
    Bob McDonnell
    American politician and lawyer (1954 - )
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  • Bill Owens As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Bill Vaughan As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Barack Obama As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Stephen Vizinczey As both capitalist and communist states - not to mention the technological world - have evolved under the illusion that men purposefully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our
    Stephen Vizinczey
    Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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  • Bob Filner As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Burgess Owens As its citizens humbly recommit to an acceptance of guidance from the God of our fathers, our nation will once again see the miraculous resurrection of the proud, responsible, visionary black father. And with him, his family and community will be lifted.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro As of September 2012, 168 out of the 602 released Guantanamo Bay detainees are suspected of returning to terrorism. So, is this a winning scenario for the United States? Of course not.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • John Paul II As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
    John Paul II
    Polish priest and later 264th Pope (1920 - 2005)
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  • Bell Hooks As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.
    Ending Racism Killing Rage
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Brad Sherman As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Arne Duncan At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.
    Arne Duncan
    American civil servant (1964 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Barkley was the first of many American skyjackers whose primary interest was money; by 1972, the majority of the nation's hijackings would involve demands for ransom. Barkley himself was declared incompetent to stand trial in November 1971, at which point he was committed to a psychiatric hospital in Georgia.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • A. Bartlett Giamatti Baseball has the largest library of law and lore and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
    Sports Illustrated, 17 April 1989
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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