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"The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism."
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"If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European."
"The English race is the best at weeping and the worst at laughing."
"I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs."
"So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true."
"I am an American in every fiber of my body and in every heartbeat."
"It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something."
"I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported."
"After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor."
"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."
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"In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations."
"The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual."
"In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war."
"In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war."
"The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations."
"The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations."
"Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever."
"We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war."
"The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization."
"It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world."
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