"When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country."

Nation, Country

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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Nation, Nations, Right

"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

George Eliot, British Author

Nation, Country, Storms

"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Nation, Country, Paris

"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Nation, Rest, Will

"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

Nation, Country, Eyes, Feet, Man

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Nation, Country, Dying, Killing, Talk

"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"Nation needs soldiers, politics needs civilians."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one."

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"When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused."

Independence

"Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously."

Equality

"The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration."

Control

"Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water."

Priority

"None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel."

Trust

"The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq."

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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."

"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

"Nation needs soldiers, politics needs civilians."

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"Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one."

"When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused."

"Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously."

"The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement."

"But the issue has to do with land, which is our land."

"It should be known that Israel is based on treachery."

"The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration."

"Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water."

"None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel."

"The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq."