Quotes 201 till 220 of 331.
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The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
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The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
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The essential truth of democracy is that each nation determines its own destiny.
Ghana, 11 July 2009 -
The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.
An A-Z of cultural terms, The Guardian (1992) -
The first outbreak of America's 11-year skyjacking epidemic occurred in the summer of 1961, when four planes were seized in the nation's airspace. The last of these incidents, involving 16-year-old Cody Bearden and his father, Leon, is the one that finally forced the federal government to pay attention to the escalating crisis.
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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.
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The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion.
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
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The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.
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The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
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The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
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The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
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The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.
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The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the problems that will confront the world tomorrow.
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The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation.
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The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation - must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.
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