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“Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer”
Frank Zappa Quotes |
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“Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths”
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
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“In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.”
Confucius Quotes |
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“For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.”
Maya Angelou Quotes |
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“My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.”
Swami Vivekananda Quotes |
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“New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.”
Barry Humphries Quotes |
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“The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms... where there are good arms there must be good laws...”
Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes |
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“Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.”
Mike Myers Quotes |
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“'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'”
G. K. Chesterton Quotes |
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“So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.”
Giuseppe Mazzini Quotes |
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“I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart and not with his lips only, follow me.”
Giuseppe Garibaldi Quotes |
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“All those involved in the firebombing of Tokyo
.. were war criminals
interviews recorded in the movie The Fog
of War..
(the firebombing of Tokyo occurred before the atom bombs..
100,000 civilians died in one night from American bombs..
500,000 altogether over several days say some).”
Robert Mcnamara Quotes |
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“"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.".”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes |
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“Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.”
Montesquieu Quotes |
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“How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.”
Henry George Quotes |
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“I have no country to fight for: my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.”
Eugene V. Debs Quotes |
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“Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.”
Daniel Webster Quotes |
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“Our country. In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country right or wrong!”
Stephen Decatur Quotes |
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“My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“Our country is the world--our countrymen are mankind.”
William Lloyd Garrison Quotes |
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“The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.”
Lord Acton Quotes |
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“There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.”
Victor Hugo Quotes |
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“Every man has two countries, his own and France.”
Henri De Bornier Quotes |
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“There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.”
Joseph Addison Quotes |
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