Nations Quotes - Page 39

• China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter and President Roosevelts proclamation of the Four Freedoms for all peoples are corner-stones of our fighting faith.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Fighting, Independence, President

  "The voice of China; speeches of Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek between December 7, 1941, and October 10, 1943, including some recent messages to British leaders and the British people". Book by Hutchinson & co. ltd, 1944.

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• Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, 'His color is not mine,' or 'His beliefs are strange and different,' in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Color, America, Justice

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1965

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• This nation is the hope of the Earth.

  Mitt Romney

  Earth

  Mitt Romney at the Third Presidential Debate at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 23, 2012.

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• I spend every day up at the United Nations where I have to interact with 192 other countries. I know how well the United States is viewed.

  Susan Rice

  Country, United States, United Nations

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 16, 2012.

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• Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.

  Susan Rice

  Self, Practice, Legislation

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• One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Memories, Rain, School

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• The consequences of President Johnsons campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself.

  Eric Alterman

  Military, Party, Deception

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• For, since the fall of Adam had brought disgrace upon all his posterity, God restores those, whom He separates as His own, so that their condition may be better than that of all other nations. At the same time it must be remarked, that this grace of renewal is effaced in many who have afterwards profaned it

  John Calvin

  Fall, Grace, May

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Law Vol. 4 (Annotated Edition)”, p.382, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dog, Animal, Civilization

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

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• A president from a partner nation should not make comments on Italian politics.

  Anibal Cavaco Silva

  Italian, President, Should

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• A nation, therefore, has no right to say to a province: You belong to me, I want to take you. A province consists of its inhabitants. If anybody has a right to be heard in this case it is these inhabitants. Boundary disputes should be settled by plebiscite.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Want, Boundaries, Disputes

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• That's exactly what made America so different, we don't have that colonial aspect of let's go conquer somebody else and make our nation bigger and that's because of the faith element.

  David Barton

  America, Different, Elements

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• America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Children, America, Poverty

  "Breaking the Cycle of Childhood Poverty" by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2012.

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• A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Long, Amusement, Amused

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• It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancées whom they have never seen.

  Enoch Powell

  Funeral, Insane, Purpose

  John Enoch Powell (1991). “Reflections of a Statesman: The Writings and Speeches of Enoch Powell”, Bellew Publishing

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• Obamas foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.

  Elliott Abrams

  Self, Needs, Allies

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• At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.

  Elliott Abrams

  Israel, Moments, United Nations

  "Joining the Jackals". www.weeklystandard.com. June 2, 2010.

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• I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.

  Tony Benn

  Teacher, Thinking, Men

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• Innovation is what America does best. Whether it is the Apollo Project to the moon, developing the most advanced defense technologies available, the rise of the Internet or the latest advancements in biomedical gene therapies, our nation leads the world in transformative innovations.

  Martin Heinrich

  Moon, Technology, America

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• it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found to stabilize the nation's population, the parks can not be saved. or anything else worth a damn. wilderness preservation, like a hundred other good causes, will be forgotten under the overwhelming pressure of a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized, completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment. for my own part i would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear war than live in such a world.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Struggle, Survival

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult trek of Southern blacks to the northern and western cities. This is an epic for all Americans who want to understand the making of our modern nation.

  Tom Brokaw

  Epic, Cities, America

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• Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't sing.

  Tom Dreesen

  Two, People, Evil

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• United States and Coalition forces will remain in Iraq and will operate under American command as part of a multinational force authorized by the United Nations.

  Jim Gerlach

  Iraq, United States, Coalitions

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• At the U.N., any nation that fights back is censored as an "aggressor."

  Sam Levenson

  Fighting, Government, Censored

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• I know of no existing nation that deserves to live, and I know of very few individuals.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, Individual, Knows

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