Nations Quotes - Page 30

• Throughout my life, I have always supported the human being in his humanism and I have supported the oppressed. I think it is the person's right to live his freedom and it is her and his right to face the injustice imposed on each by revolting against it, using his practical, realistic and available means to end the oppressor's injustice toward him, whether it is an individual, a community, a nation, or a state; whether male or female.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  Mean, Thinking, Community

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• I was a National-Socialist and I remain one...The Germany of today is no longer a great nation, it has become a province of Europe.

  Joachim Peiper

  Europe, Germany, Today

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• The same people in the Congress who are busy kicking holes in the social safety net are also those who would sell off the nation's forests for a song, give away its national parks, and trash its wilderness preserves; there is a connection between the two impulses.

  Paul Gruchow

  Song, Two, People

  Paul Gruchow (1997). “Boundary Waters: The Grace of the Wild”

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• The United Nation's goal is to reduce population selectively by encouraging abortion, forced sterilization, and control of human reproduction, and regards two-thirds of the human population as excess baggage, with 350,000 people to be eliminated per day.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Two, Excess Baggage, People

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• Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Law, Political, Reverence

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Silent, Courses

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.211, Algora Publishing

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• In the Old Testament, God dealt with His people as a nation...Their relationship was completely external. But in the New Covenant, the presence of God moved out of the temple and into our hearts.

  John Chisum

  Heart, People, Covenant

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• We have to make sure that not only we [politicians] actually focus on, but the entire nation knows we're focusing on, growth and competition within the United States of America and compete internationally. I don't know anywhere where it's written that we have to be number two.

  Joe Biden

  Two, Numbers, America

  "Transcript: Vice President Biden Live on Msnbc's Morning Joe". www.nbcnews.com. November 19, 2010.

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• We need to build a beautiful granite and bronze monument in our nation's capital to honor American heroes, unsung American heroes. And those unsung American heroes are the rich.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Beautiful, Hero, Honor

  "Bernie Goldberg Explains Why We Should Be Thanking Rich Americans". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. December 13, 2010.

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• I saw a threat in Saddam Hussein. Members of the United States Congress from both political parties saw that same threat. The United Nation's saw the threat. I made the right decision in getting Saddam Hussein out of power.

  George W. Bush

  Party, Political, Decision

  "President Bush in Georgia". President Bush's speech at a Georgia rally, www.nytimes.com. October 31, 2006.

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• The worst thing we can do as a nation is taking the easy way out. If you start opening up offshore drilling, then you are buying time and you are not addressing the fundamental problem with fossil fuels.

  Joe Biden

  Opening Up, Fossils, Fundamentals

  "Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), political roundtable". Interview with Brian Williams, www.nbcnews.com. June 22, 2008.

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• I believe that America is the indispensable nation of the world. Just the creation of this nation itself was a miracle.

  Michele Bachmann

  Believe, America, Miracle

  Response to 2011 State of the Union Address, delivered 25 January 2011

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• American nation will not wait to be attacked again. We will defend our freedom and we will take the fight to the enemy.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Waiting, Enemy

  "Transcript: President Bush‘s Fort Bragg speech". "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. June 30, 2005.

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• American mission in Iraq is clear: We're hunting down the terrorists. We're helping Iraqis build a free nation that is an ally in the war on terror. We're advancing freedom in the broader Middle East. We are removing a source of violence and instability and laying the foundation of peace for our children and our grandchildren.

  George W. Bush

  Children, War, Hunting

  "Transcript: President Bush‘s Fort Bragg speech". "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. June 30, 2005.

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• We live in freedom because every generation has produced patriots willing to serve a cause greater than themselves. Those who serve today are taking their rightful place among the greatest generations that have worn our nation's uniform.

  George W. Bush

  Generations, Uniforms, Causes

  Fort Bragg Speech, www.nbcnews.com. 2005.

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• Here at home, we will strengthen our defenses but not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values that we cherish as Americans, because great and proud nations don't hunker down and hide behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

  Barack Obama

  Wall, Home, Sacrifice

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• We must begin by acknowledging a hard truth. We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations, acting individually or in concert, will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified.

  Barack Obama

  Acting, Use, Conflict

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• Bill Ford, Jr., is somebody who wants to move this industry, to lead the nation in making us independent of foreign oil, of making the green vehicle.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Moving, Independent, Oil

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. March 31, 2009.

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• If you don't have an auto industry, you will not be secure as a nation because you won't have a backbone like manufacturing to be able to put people to work in producing the means to you keep you secure.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Mean, People, Able

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. March 30, 2009.

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• We need, from time to time, to use military force or all of the resources at our command in order to defend the nation and defend our friends. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I think there are probably some who actually believe, if we just go talk nice to these folks, everything is going to be OK. I don't think the world works that way.

  Dick Cheney

  Military, Nice, Believe

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. February 5, 2009.

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• If I were trapped in one city and had to eat one nation's cuisine for the rest of my life, I would not mind eating Japanese. I adore Japanese food. I love it.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Cities, Mind, Cuisine

  "Arcane, Urbane & Insane Bourdain!". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• I feel like we [americans] are a unique nation in this world, in that we are able to implement great change in our society over a relatively short period of time. What takes centuries in Europe, we accomplish in a generation.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Unique, Europe, World

  "Barnes & Noble interview with Khaled Hosseini". Interview with James Mustich, www.csmonitor.com. November 24, 2008.

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• Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Running, Government, Law

  "Khaled Hosseini, Kabul’s Splendid Son". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June, 2009.

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• To gain support in U.S. Congress and from other nations requires clarity, an acceptable mission and an explicit outcome.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Support, Outcomes, Gains

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Apollo 11 will probably go down in history as one of the major responses of two nations facing each other with threatening technologies - sometimes called mutually assured destruction. It was also the America's response to the apparent superiority of the Russians in putting objects into space before USA could.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Technology, Two Nations, Usa

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