Nations Quotes

• Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Freedom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations -- all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Powerful, Numbers, Oligarchy

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• Let us build a structure of peace in the world in which the weak are as safe as the strong — in which each respects the right of the other to live by a different system — in which those who would influence others will do so by the strength of their ideas, and not by the force of their arms. Let us accept that high responsibility not as a burden, but gladly — gladly because the chance to build such a peace is the noblest endeavor in which a nation can engage.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, Strong, Responsibility

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1973

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• Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat.

  Mark Twain

  Kings, Bread, Earth

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1852-1890”, Library of America

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• We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.

  Cesar Chavez

  Diversity, Community, Parent

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• There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

  Black Elk

  Inspirational, Life, Peace

  "The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux" by Black Elk, 1953.

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• Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk.

  Jim Rohn

  Funny, Time, Light

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 06, 2013

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• Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to it, you'll find that all people need good food, clean water, clean air, and a decent environment, meaning education as to how to relate to one another and to avoid conflict, how to accept the differences where different people draw different conclusions.

  Jacque Fresco

  Education, Food, Pride

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• A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Honor, Remember

  Remarks at Amherst College, October 26, 1963.

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• From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.

  Thomas Paine

  Errors

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution: (Library of America Paperback Classic)”, p.67, Library of America

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• May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world.

  Dan Quayle

  World, May, Politics

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• We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

  Chief Seattle

  Motivational, Wisdom, Peace

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• Great countries are those that produce great people.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, People, Produce

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• Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity and worth of cultures and peoples.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Respect, Peace, Native American

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• Israel was born out of Jewish terrorism. Jewish terrorists hanged two British sergeants and booby-trapped their corpses.

  Gerald Kaufman

  Israel, History, Terrorism

  House of Commons Debates, publications.parliament.uk. January 15, 2009.

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• Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.

  Ralph Bunche

  Education, Peace, Freedom

  "Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time". Ralph Bunche's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1950.

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• To me, being Australian is about looking after your mates, taking care of the less fortunate, supporting the underdog and enhancing the spirit that makes all Australians unique.

  Steve Waugh

  Helping Others, Unique, Support

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• We need more than individual value systems; we need a shared vision. A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive society despite the tensions of daily life. That is what enables them to rise above the conflicts that plague any society.

  John W. Gardner

  Attitude, Integrity, People

  "The Recovery of Confidence".

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• Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Power, Greatness, Flames

  Misattributed to Tocqueville. "The Tocqueville Fraud" by John Pitney, www.weeklystandard.com. November 12, 1995.

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• After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.

  Charlie Gonzalez

  Senior, Citizens, Way

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• God made the country, and man made the town.

  William Cowper

  God, Country, Men

  The Task bk. 1 "The Sofa" l. 749 (1785) See Abraham Cowley 2

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  Our true nationality is mankind.

  H. G. Wells

  Life, Racism, People

  H. G. Wells, Walter Warren Wagar (2004). “The Outline of History: The Roman Empire to the Great War”, p.644, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• A year ago Guyana became politically free and independent. She assumed the untrammeled right to make her own decisions on what ought to be done or ought not to be done within her border. Since then, hers has also been the right to decide what course she would take and to state her views and opinions positively in the fora of the world. As we celebrate the first anniversary of freedom, it is our duty to take account of what we have achieved or what we have failed to do, to note where we have done well and what we ought to have done better.

  Forbes Burnham

  Freedom, Failure, Independent

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• Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

  Samuel Gompers

  Men, Race, Labor Day

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• Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Life, Women

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken

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