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  • Bill Vaughan A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Breyten Breytenbach The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
    Breyten Breytenbach
    South African writer and painter (1939 - )
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  • James Madison The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.
    James Madison
    American statesman, President (1751 - 1836)
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  • Campbell Brown 'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Alexander Hamilton A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Bill Dedman After a plane or train crash, the National Transportation Safety Board dispatches its experts within two hours. The investigators in their familiar jackets take charge of the scene, secure evidence, follow leads.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Barry Commoner After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Ben Shapiro After the killing of Osama Bin Laden, the Obama administration steadfastly refused to say which element of the U.S. military had participated in the assault. Until Vice President Joe Biden decided to talk about it on national television, that is.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Carson Mccullers All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
    Carson Mccullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Thomas Paine All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Ann Macbeth All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Buzz Aldrin All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Brent Scowcroft America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • C. Wright Mills America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Bob Dylan And the National Bank at a profit sells road maps for the soul
    To the old folks home and the college
    Source: Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Barbara Castle Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Burgess Owens As a former NFL player, I am one American who will have nothing to do with any NFL Team that cannot find the corporate courage to stand for the millions of courageous past great Americans whose sacrifice gave meaning to our flag and national anthem and to the millions upon millions who still dream to come to its free shores.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Abdolkarim Soroush As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.
    Abdolkarim Soroush
    Iranian Islamic thinker and reformer (1945 - )
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  • Lance Morrow As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.
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