Borders Quotes

• A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

  Ronald Reagan

  Migration, Nations, Nationalism

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• The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

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• No borders, just horizons - only freedom.

  Amelia Earhart

  Horizon

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• The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

  Pablo Casals

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Country

  "Joys and Sorrows : Reflections‎ by Pablo Casals as told to Albert E. Kahn". Book by Albert E. Kahn, 1974.

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• We are defined not by our borders but by our bonds.

  Barack Obama

  Defined

  "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. May 19, 2010.

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• The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.

  Sitting Bull

  Meat, Buffalo, Taste

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• Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Limitless

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.184, Tuttle Publishing

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• "The true Islamic concept of peace goes something like this: "Peace comes through submission to Muhammad and his concept of Allah" (i.e. Islam). As such the Islamic concept of peace, meaning making the whole world Muslim, is actually a mandate for war. It was inevitable and unavoidable that the conflict would eventually reach our borders, and so it has."

  Vernon Richards

  War, Islamic, World

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• Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.

  Marya Mannes

  War, Heart, Men

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• Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Bird, Flying, Firsts

  "Now that I've finally been admitted to Britain it seems that everyone else suddenly wants to leave" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2008.

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• And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to the suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.

  Barack Obama

  Suffering, World, Politics

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• How is it that we can militarily overthrow a military government like Iraq, yet we can't militarily keep illegalities (drugs and aliens) from crossing our borders?

  Chuck Norris

  Military, Government, Iraq

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• But human borders mean nothing to air, water, windblown soil or seeds or migrating fish, birds or mammals.

  David Suzuki

  Mean, Air, Water

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• In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders.

  Joe Baca

  Government, Track, Border Security

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• The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Success And Failure, Life Happiness, Difficult

  Eiji Yoshikawa (2012). “Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan”, p.1255, Vertical, Inc.

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• Think about this: terrorism, epidemics, poverty, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction-all challenges that know no borders-the reality is that climate change ranks right up there with every single one of them.

  John F. Kerry

  Thinking, Reality, Epidemics

  "President Obama's strategy against ISIS remains unclear". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2014.

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• I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.

  Joe Lieberman

  Lying, Believe, National Security

  "Congress bids farewell to influential lawmakers", www.foxnews.com.

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• Fences and borders are a sign of weakness.

  Yanis Varoufakis

  Weakness, Fence

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Soldier, Liberty, Libertarian

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• We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Track, Personal Development

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.148, Mango Media Inc.

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• Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Country, Independent, Dignity

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• I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us

  Loren Eiseley

  Regret, Form, My Own

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• A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

  Norman Mailer

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Tyrants

  1963 The Presidential Papers, preface.

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• To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.

  Tom Tancredo

  Destiny, Able, Way

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• We can control our borders, we just choose not too.

  Tom Tancredo

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