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Lord George Gordon Byron
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| "CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national
boundaries" | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upwardly mobile." | |
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Hunter S. Thompson
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| "It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own
group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it....
This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the
human race." | |
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Clarence Jordan
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| "Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing
herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks;
methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her
undazzled eyes at the full midday beam." | |
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John Milton
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| "Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It
buries itself alive. As for the Pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in
them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to
spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it
would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then
given his body to the dogs." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "Once again, this nation has said there are no dreams too large, no
innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach." | |
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John S. Herrington
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| "Small nations are like indecently dressed women they tempt the
evil-minded." | |
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Julius Nyerere
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| "The future of nations cannot be frozen ... cannot be foreseen. If we
are going to accomplish anything in our time we must approach our problem
in the knowledge that there is nothing rigid or immutable in human
affairs. History is a story of growth, decay and change. If no provision,
no allowance is made for change by peaceful means, it will come anyway ?
and with violence." | |
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Herbert Clark Hoover
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| "The nation"s honor is dearer than the nation"s comfort; yes, than
the nation"s life itself." | |
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Woodrow Wilson
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| "The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt
have been small states?Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan
England." | |
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Dr. William Ralph Inge
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| "The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and
the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth." | |
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General Dwight David Eisenhower
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| "To expect a nation to be ignorant and free is to expect something
which never has been, and never can be." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions
bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality.
Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all
nationalities." | |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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| "We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant
facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a
nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in
an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." | |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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| "Whereas, it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence
of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and
humbly to implore His protection and favor, and; Whereas, both Houses of
Congress have, by their joint committee, " | |
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George Washington
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