Nations Quotes

To me, being Australian is about looking after your mates, taking care of the less fortunate, supporting the underdog and enhancing the spirit that makes all Australians unique.

Steve Waugh

Helping Others, Unique, Support

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Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.

Ralph Bunche

Education, Peace, Good Life

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The English as a race are not worth saving!

Jack Straw

Race, Saving, Politician

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Israel was born out of Jewish Terrorism

Gerald Kaufman

Israel, History, Terrorism

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Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

Elie Wiesel

Inspirational, Life, Women

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A year ago Guyana became politically free and independent. She assumed the untrammeled right to make her own decisions on what ought to be done or ought not to be done within her border. Since then, hers has also been the right to decide what course she would take and to state her views and opinions positively in the fora of the world. As we celebrate the first anniversary of freedom, it is our duty to take account of what we have achieved or what we have failed to do, to note where we have done well and what we ought to have done better.

Forbes Burnham

Freedom, Failure, Independent

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As long as countries wave chequebooks over our heads, we can never be equal.

Louise Mushikiwabo

Country, Money, Equality

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Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to it, you'll find that all people need good food, clean water, clean air, and a decent environment, meaning education as to how to relate to one another and to avoid conflict, how to accept the differences where different people draw different conclusions.

Jacque Fresco

Education, Food, Pride

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A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive society despite the tensions of daily life. This is what enables them to rise above the conflicts that plague any society. That is what gives a nation its tone, its fiber, its integrity, its moral style, its capacity to endure.

John W. Gardner

Attitude, Integrity, Giving

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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

John F. Kennedy

Inspirational, Being Yourself, Freedom

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We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.

Cesar Chavez

Diversity, Community, Parent

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A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.

John F. Kennedy

Men, Honor, Remember

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There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Black Elk

Inspirational, Life, Peace

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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

Chief Seattle

Motivational, Wisdom, Peace

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After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.

Charlie Gonzalez

Senior, Way, Citizens

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From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom,

Thomas Paine

Errors

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God made the country, and man made the town.

William Cowper

God, Country, Men

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Great countries are those that produce great people.

Benjamin Disraeli

Country, People, Produce

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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

Samuel Gompers

Men, Race, Labor Day

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He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention

Adam Smith

Ignorance, Hands, Invisible Hand

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We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Years, Stones, Spirit

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Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Important, Culture, Language

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It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.

Joan Didion

Love, Dream, Men

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