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• Sporting chivalrous contest helps knit the bonds of peace between nations. Therefore may the Olympic flame never expire.

  Adolf Hitler

  Flames, May, Helping

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• Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches (often at gunpoint) to other nations he is nearly the only person now writing who assumes a single standard of international morality not for rhetorical effect, but as a matter of habitual, practically instinctual conviction.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, United States, Matter

  Christopher Hitchens (1994). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.220, Verso

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• The realization that American power could and should be used for the defense of pluralism and as a punishment for fascism came to me in Sarajevo a year or two later... That was an early quarrel between me and many of my Nation colleagues, and it was also the first time I found myself in the same trench as people like Paul Wolfowitz and Jeane Kirkpatrick: a shock I had to learn to get over. The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Real, Party, Thinking

  Interview with Jamie Glazov, historynewsnetwork.org. December 23, 2003.

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• In dealing with those nations that break rules and laws, I believe that we must develop alternatives to violence that are tough enough to actually change behavior -- for if we want a lasting peace, then the words of the international community must mean something. Those regimes that break the rules must be held accountable. Sanctions must exact a real price. Intransigence must be met with increased pressure -- and such pressure exists only when the world stands together as one.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Believe, Mean

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

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• We can't afford to stand pat while the world races by. The United States of America did not become the most prosperous nation on Earth by sheer luck or happenstance. We got here because each time a generation of Americans has faced a changing world, we have changed with it. We have not feared our future; we have shaped it.

  Barack Obama

  America, Race, Luck

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• Ultimately there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street. We will rise or we will fall together as one nation.

  Barack Obama

  Wall, Fall, Together

  "President Obama Pitches Financial Reform". "NBC Nightly News" with Brian Williams, archives.nbclearn.com. April 22, 2010.

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• Today, on this day of possibility, we stand in the shadow of a lanky, raw-boned man with little formal education who once took the stage at Old Main and told the nation that if anyone did not believe the American principles of freedom and equality, that those principles were timeless and all-inclusive, they should go rip that page out of the Declaration of Independence.

  Barack Obama

  Rip, Believe, Men

  Commencement Address at Knox College, delivered 4 June 2005, Galesburg, Illinois

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• Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.

  Barack Obama

  Perfect, Democracy, Path

  First Speech Before the United Nations General Assembly (64th Session), delivered 23 September 2009, New York, NY

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• Michelle will tell you that when we get together for Christmas or Thanksgiving, it's like a little mini-United Nations... I've got relatives who look like Bernie Mac, and I've got relatives who look like Margaret Thatcher... We've got it all.

  Barack Obama

  Together, Looks, Littles

  "Keeping Hope Alive". The Oprah Winfrey Show, October 18, 2006.

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• No more painters, no more scribblers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more royalists, no more radicals, no more imperialists, no more anarchists, no more socialists, no more communists, no more proletariat, no more democrats, no more republicans, no more bourgeois, no more aristocrats, no more arms, no more police, no more nations, an end at last to all this stupidity, nothing left, nothing at all, nothing, nothing.

  Louis Aragon

  Stupidity, Police, Musician

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• Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if the worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat.

  Ronald Knox

  Queens, Thinking, Matter

  "God and the Atom". Book by Ronald Knox, pp. 53 - 54, 1945.

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• I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Kind, Judgment, Instruments

  "Eugene J. McCarthy, Senate Dove Who Jolted '68 Race, Dies at 89" by Francis X. Clines, www.nytimes.com. Decemebr 11, 2005.

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• There should be a study of a house directly elected by the people of the world to whom the nations are accountable.

  Ernest Bevin

  People, House, World

  House of Commons speech, November 23, 1945.

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• The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Strong, Too Much, Beast

  Quoted in Hedrick Smith The Power Game (1988).

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• I believe that during the intervention of NATO in Kosovo there is an element nobody can question: the air attacks, the bombs, are not caused by a material interest. Their character is exclusively humanitarian: What is at stake here are the principles, human rights which have priority above state sovereignty. This makes it legitimate to attack the Yugoslav Federation, although without the United Nations mandate.

  Vaclav Havel

  Believe, Character, Rights

  "Le Monde" Newspaper, April 29, 1999.

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• [President Bush should] quit hiding behind the Secret Service, come out and face the nation and explain his failure to protect the country.

  Peter Jennings

  Country, Secret, President

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• A nation without a religion - that is like a man without breath.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Men, Breaths

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1929.

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• The Jew is contrary to our being. ... He desecrated our people, spit on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation, made our customs rotten, and polluted the morale.

  Joseph Goebbels

  People, Rotten, Spit

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• To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the right to seek his own happiness; a republican form of government in which the people would be sovereign; and no arbitrary power over people's lives. Less than two hundred years later, almost every aspect of the dream has been lost.

  Charles A. Reich

  Dream, Men, Years

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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• No nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others. We all share responsibility for each other's security, and only by working to make each other secure can we hope to achieve lasting security for ourselves.

  Kofi Annan

  Responsibility, Achieve, Share

  Kofi Annan's speech - Americas - International Herald Tribune, www.nytimes.com. December 11, 2006.

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• I am convinced that unless America changes course, we will become the France of the 21st Century - still a great nation, but no longer the leader of the world...

  Mitt Romney

  America, Leader, World

  "Romney suspends White House bid". news.bbc.co.uk. February 8, 2008.

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• Choosing education is a very good decision, not only good for the student, but also for our country. The United States was the first nation in history to recognize that public education for every citizen, regardless of class or station, was vital to its future . . .

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Class, Decision

  Mitt Romney (2010). “No Apology: The Case for American Greatness”, p.196, Macmillan

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• Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good. The gratitude of the nation to the sovereign arbiter of all human events should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy. Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

  James K. Polk

  Country, Gratitude, Blessing

  James K. Polk (2009). “Messages and Papers of the Presidents: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce”, p.2479, Wildside Press LLC

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• If Slumdog Millionaire projects India as a Third World, dirty-underbelly, developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be known that a murky underbelly exists and thrives even in the most developed nations. It's just that the Slumdog Millionaire idea authored by an Indian and conceived and cinematically put together by a Westerner, gets creative Golden Globe recognition. The other would perhaps not.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Pain, Dirty, Ideas

  "Slumdogs who seek success". The Independent, News, p. 30, January 16, 2009.

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• To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.

  Ben Bernanke

  Defense, Entitlement, Social

  "Economic Challenges: Past, Present, and Future". Speech at the Dallas Regional Chamber, Dallas, Texas, www.federalreserve.gov. April 07, 2010.

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