Nations Quotes - Page 37

• In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nations largest corporations.

  Ron Kind

  War, Cost, Subsidies

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• Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us.

  Theodor Herzl

  Country, Hate, Humanity

  Theodor Herzl (1962). “The diaries of Theodor Herzl”

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• I pray for my nation, South Africa. As Jesus stood in the boat and commanded the storms to be calm, I stand in the midst of the storm in my nation, South Africa and I command the storm, wind and waves to be calm, in the name of Jesus! I speak calmness to my nation, South Africa, in the name of Jesus!

  T. B. Joshua

  Jesus, Wind, Names

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• A president from a partner nation should not make comments on Italian politics.

  Anibal Cavaco Silva

  Italian, President, Should

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• A nation, therefore, has no right to say to a province: You belong to me, I want to take you. A province consists of its inhabitants. If anybody has a right to be heard in this case it is these inhabitants. Boundary disputes should be settled by plebiscite.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Want, Boundaries, Disputes

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• If you got up this morning and had fruits for breakfast, it was probably picked by the bent back of an immigrant worker. If you slept in a hotel or motel of the nation, you probably had your room done by an immigrant worker.

  Bob Menendez

  Morning, Done, Breakfast

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• That's exactly what made America so different, we don't have that colonial aspect of let's go conquer somebody else and make our nation bigger and that's because of the faith element.

  David Barton

  America, Different, Elements

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• America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Children, America, Poverty

  "Breaking the Cycle of Childhood Poverty" by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2012.

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• Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks and myths. One of the nation's most brilliant writers emerges as all the more fascinating precisely because he was so very human. Painstakingly researched and compellingly written, Ralph Ellison is a masterwork of the genre of literary biography.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Men, Long, Biographies

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• The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Luxury, Essentials

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• A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Long, Amusement, Amused

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• It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancées whom they have never seen.

  Enoch Powell

  Funeral, Insane, Purpose

  John Enoch Powell (1991). “Reflections of a Statesman: The Writings and Speeches of Enoch Powell”, Bellew Publishing

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• A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.

  Elliott Abrams

  Tyrants, United States, Needs

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• Obamas foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.

  Elliott Abrams

  Self, Needs, Allies

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• At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.

  Elliott Abrams

  Israel, Moments, United Nations

  "Joining the Jackals". www.weeklystandard.com. June 2, 2010.

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• Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.

  Elliott Abrams

  Country, War, World

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• I believe that the abolition of private ownership of land and capital is a necessary step toward any world in which the nations are to live at peace with one another.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Land, World

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Proposed Roads to Freedom”, p.112, Booklassic

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• In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

  Atul Gawande

  Reform, Stories, Movement

  "Annals of Public Policy" by Atul Gawande, www.newyorker.com. January 26, 2009.

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• I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.

  Tony Benn

  Teacher, Thinking, Men

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• Innovation is what America does best. Whether it is the Apollo Project to the moon, developing the most advanced defense technologies available, the rise of the Internet or the latest advancements in biomedical gene therapies, our nation leads the world in transformative innovations.

  Martin Heinrich

  Moon, Technology, America

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• Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

  Jerrold Nadler

  Practice, Civilized Nations, Moral

  "No More Clever Wordplay on Torture" by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2007.

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• it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found to stabilize the nation's population, the parks can not be saved. or anything else worth a damn. wilderness preservation, like a hundred other good causes, will be forgotten under the overwhelming pressure of a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized, completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment. for my own part i would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear war than live in such a world.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Struggle, Survival

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult trek of Southern blacks to the northern and western cities. This is an epic for all Americans who want to understand the making of our modern nation.

  Tom Brokaw

  Epic, Cities, America

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• Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns is an American masterpiece, a stupendous literary success that channels the social sciences as iconic biography in order to tell a vast story of a people's reinvention of itself and of a nation-the first complete history of the Great Black Migration from start to finish, north, east, west.

  David Levering Lewis

  Order, People, Black

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• Nation after nation, when at the zenith of its power, has proclaimed itself invincible because its army could shake the earth with its tread and its ships could fill the seas, but these nations are dead, and we must build upon a different foundation if we would avoid their fate.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Fate, Army, Sea

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1909). “Speeches of William Jennings Bryan”

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