Nations Quotes - Page 37

• If we remain determined to shape a new and better world of separate, sovereign nations, this new century will be a happier one.

  Alan Caruba

  War, World, Shapes

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• What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Believe, Responsibility

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• Nations are more successful when their women are successful.

  Barack Obama

  Successful

  "Obama Wraps Up Visit To India". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 27, 2015.

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• See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, to buried merit raise the tardy bust.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Merit, Buried

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.62, Univ of California Press

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• In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.

  Bill Vaughan

  President, Momentum, Republican

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• Trade it may help, society extend,
  But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend:
  It raises armies in a nation's aid,
  But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.

  Alexander Pope

  Money, Army, Land

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• Never lose your faith in the American Dream. She's a nation under God, and God has never let a good American down.

  Michael Moriarty

  Dream, American Dream, Loses

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• Dreams from 1991 are becoming reality. We will build good relations between nations and people. We will strive towards mutual respect and equality of every individual, sex, race and national or any other minority.

  Janez Drnovsek

  Dream, Sex, Reality

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• Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet.

  Mathieu Kerekou

  Strong, Community, Proud

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• Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions.

  Godfrey Higgins

  Inquiry, Veils, Language

  Godfrey Higgins (2010). “Eadras and the Ancient Jewish Cabal”

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• The accounts that history presents have to be paid. Past has to be reconciled with present in the life of a nation. History is an insistent force: the past is what put us where we are. the past cannot be put behind until it is settled with.

  William Pfaff

  Past, Force, Behinds

  "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 1, Dead Stars, p. 3, 1989.

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• How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.

  Alice Tisdale Hobart

  Responsibility, People, Democracy

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• Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?

  Unita Blackwell

  Years, Civilization, Imperialism

  Unita Blackwell, JoAnne Prichard Morris (2006). “Barefootin': Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom”, Crown

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• America ... holds up its way of life as the ideal for every nation, and seeks to impose its own standards of living - which many people think ridiculously and unwholesomely high - on others, partly of course in the search for markets. If it were openly stated that it was just a search for markets, that would be one thing, but it is not; by a tremendous propaganda campaign this materialistic conception is held up as an ideal, as somehow part of liberty, and above all, as a form of happiness.

  Ann Bridge

  Thinking, America, People

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• If people could only be taught that economy is a thing of littles and of individuals, and of every day, and not a thing of masses and of spasmodic efforts, then a true idea would begin to tell upon the habits of our domestic life, for the thrift and thriving of the individual is the thrift and thriving of the nation.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Ideas, People, Effort

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• Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have them, it's our duty to invent them.

  Rosario Ferre

  Country, Hero, Leader

  Rosario Ferré (1996). “Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories”, Plume Books

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• Doing the impossible is the history of this nation. It is how this country was built

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Impossible, Built

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• The U.S.A. has become a nation of determined spectators, willing to watch someone else perform.

  Sybil Leek

  Watches, Determined, Spectators

  Sybil Leek (1972). “ESP--The magic within you”, Abelard-Schuman Ltd

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• My family are doctors and pilots and people involved in indigenous First Nation land rights; not overtly artistic.

  Deborah Kara Unger

  Doctors, Rights, Land

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• The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.

  Alice Waters

  Problem, Fast Food Nation, Fast Food

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• To be on Coast to Coast, you have to be willing to stay awake in the middle of the night. But in return you get a great audience of millions of listeners all across the nation.

  George Noory

  Night, Return, Middle

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• Negroes aren't seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America to be 100 percent strong -- economically, defensively and morally -- we cannot afford the waste of having second- and third-class citizens.

  Jackie Robinson

  Strong, Order, Class

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• To subdivide this land into two unstable, insecure nations, to try to defend what is indefensible, is to invite disaster. Carving Judea and Samaria out of Israel means carving up Israel.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Mean, Insecure, Two

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• Canada is the greatest nation in this country.

  Allan A. Lamport

  Country, Canada, Canada Funny

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• Love or affection towards an individual or nation, is indicated by good action snot merely be words. The adoration towards nation is expressed by works of welfare equally done by the ruler and theruled. The ruler himself must be engatged, in welfare of th country and also should select officials examining their involvement with the public god. Self-centered people greedy of the power should be kept away

  Chanakya

  Country, Self, People

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