Nations Quotes - Page 9

• A Britain which denounced the insanity of the nuclear strategy would be in a position to direct its influence at the United Nations and in the world at large, in a manner at present denied us

  Michael Foot

  Insanity, Would Be, Nuclear

  "Michael Foot: key quotes" by Richard Nelsson, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2010.

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• Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?

  Robert E. Howard

  Real, Thinking, People

  Letter to Robert W. Gordon, January 2, 1926.

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• Those individuals from the far left, and I'm talking about the Hollywood elitists and the United Nations and those individuals want us to believe it's because we are contributing CO2 to the atmosphere, that's causing global warming. It's all about money. I mean, what would happen to the Weather Channel's ratings if all the sudden people weren't scared anymore?

  James Inhofe

  Believe, Mean, Talking

  "Meet the Republicans’ Top Guy on the Environment, James Inhofe" by Juliet Lapidos, takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com. November 12, 2014.

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• That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent. We are in the midst of unparalleled difficulties and untold sufferings; we have been through dark days of apprehension and anguish; but I can say with confidence that with courage and self-reliance and by the Grace of God we shall emerge triumphant.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Dark, Sacrifice, Self

  Speech at a rally at the University Stadium, Lahore, October 30, 1947.

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• From the time of the Revolutionary War, when citizens stood forward to defend their liberties against the depredations of tyranny. All the way through Civil War, through the great World Wars, this nation has been defended by the tradition of common ordinary folks who come from behind the plow, come from the store-clerking, come from the classrooms, and so forth to get on the battlefields - ordinary citizens turned into heroes in defense of their liberty, because that's the potential of freedom.

  Alan Keyes

  War, Hero, Liberty

  Alan Keyes' Speech during Rally in Idaho Falls, Idaho, www.keyesarchives.com. May 12, 2000.

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• Armenia was always a minority nation. The Armenians were annihilated by the Russians and then by the Turks.

  Ernst Kaltenbrunner

  Armenia, Minorities, Armenians

  Said to Leon Goldensohn, June 06, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• I am ready to have dialogue with the concerned parties once the nation is calm and the political temperatures are lowered enough for constructive and productive engagement.

  Mwai Kibaki

  Party, Political, Engagement

  "Kibaki 'Open to Opposition Talks'". news.bbc.co.uk. January 03, 2008.

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• You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Accountability, Democracy, States

  "Czech warns Europe of 'dream world' woes". www.washingtontimes.com. November 24, 2003.

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• By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help strengthen our nation and America's middle class, and spur a new age of innovation and ingenuity in our country.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Country, College, Class

  "Pelosi: Higher Education Bill is Bipartisan Investment in College Affordability and in America's Middle Class". Press release, July 31, 2008.

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• I bow my head to the victims of terrorism. I am highly impressed of the courage of New York residents. The great city and the great American nation are to win!

  Vladimir Putin

  New York, Winning, Cities

  Inscription at the World Trade Center Memorial Wall, November 15, 2001.

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• There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.

  Boyle Roche

  Sin, Shame, Decree

  c.1800 Debate on theAct of Union between Great Britain and Ireland, IrishHouse of Commons, quotedin SirJonahBarrington Personal Sketches and Recollections of his ownTimes (1827).

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• For more than two generations, my family had never achieved their ambitions. Their talents were unappreciated and unused. They deserved better. They hadn't done anything wrong; they just had some bad breaks. Why was I succeeding? Why was I living my dreams? I wasn't more deserving than they were. I wasn't smarter or a better person. What was the difference between us that allowed me to attain so much in a short time? America. America was the difference. I had been born a citizen of the greatest nation in all of human history.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Ambition, America

  Marco Rubio (2012). “An American Son: A Memoir”, p.185, Penguin

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• You know, this country today, it seems to me - it's about fear. And it shouldn't be about fear. It should be about hope and optimism and creativity and accepting a challenge and being a moral leader and being a great nation.

  Tom Vilsack

  Country, Creativity, America

  "Energy Security". Interview with Vijay Vaitheeswaran, www.cfr.org. October 12, 2006.

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• While greenies and their media flunkies continue to savage the gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and rhapsodize about hybrids, hydrogen, electrics, natural gas, propane, nuclear, and God-knows-what-other panaceas, perhaps including bovine urine, there are no realistic, economically viable alternatives. None. Zero. Like it or not, as long as we remain dependent on the private automobile for transportation (roughly 80 percent of all movement in the nation is by car), we are harnessed to the IC gas engine.

  Brock Yates

  Zero, Media, Car

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• The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do.

  Anthony Zinni

  Might, Legitimacy, United Nations

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. April 15, 2007.

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• A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Corpses

  Speech to the members of the Committee of Public Safety, quoting Mirabeau, October 17, 1793. "Saint-Just: Colleague of Robespierre". Book by Eugene Newton Curtis, p. 236, 1973.

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• From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is more flexible than in England. The truth however is, that an elementary difference exists in the public feelings of the two nations quite as great as in the idioms of their respective dialects. The English are a justice-loving people, according to charter and statute; the Scotch are a wrong-resenting race, according to right and feeling: and the character of liberty among them takes its aspect from that peculiarity.

  John Galt

  Character, Scotland, Two

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• The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation's security.

  Jeff Sessions

  Libertarian, Constitution, Protect

  Said in a derogatory tone on the floor of the U.S. Senate, December 17, 2007.

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• nation state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Men, Political, Creative

  "Globalists interviewed: they admitted they controlled the government". Article by Jon Rappoport, jonrappoport.wordpress.com. March 2, 2017.

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• With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, Luxury, Self

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.199, Basic Books

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• What's the third largest nation in the world after China and India? It's the Facebook nation - 430 million people on Facebook.

  James G. Stavridis

  People, India, World

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• And just as you supported and carried out a policy of not wanting to share the earth with the Jewish people and the people of a number of other nations - as though you and your superiors had any right to determine who should and who should not inhabit the world - we find that no one, that is, no member of the human race, can be expected to want to share the earth with you. This is the reason, and the only reason, you must hang.

  Hannah

  Race, Numbers, People

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• Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized!

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Ignorant, Term, Civilized

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• Recent school shootings have lured ill-informed Americans into a war on our Second Amendment guarantees, led by the nation's tyrants and their useful idiots. ... The Second Amendment was given to us as protection against tyranny by the federal government and the Congress of the United States.

  Walter E. Williams

  War, School, Government

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• It has been very humbling and gratifying to have these men as our role models. Your generation enabled America to close out the twentieth century as the greatest nation in the history of mankind, the only remaining superpower, the world's leading economy and the world's most respected and feared military force in the world - respected by our friends and allies, feared by our adversaries.

  Eric Shinseki

  Military, Men, America

  "Rising Sons: The Japanese American GIs Who Fought for the United States". Book by Bill Yenne, 2007.

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