"There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own."

Nation, Nations, State, States, Want

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"There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own."

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"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty."

Samuel Gompers, American Activist

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"However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates a broken system."

Spencer Bachus, American Politician

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"So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it."

Chris Hadfield, Canadian Astronaut

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"And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian."

Chris Hadfield, Canadian Astronaut

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"The problems of our country are very fast to recognize."

Peter Bichsel, Swiss Writer

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"You know, having been an election monitor in countries across the world, I can tell you that we would never certify another country's election if it had as many flaws in place as we had in Florida."

Corrine Brown, American Politician

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"Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence."

Richard Grant, American Author

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"The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in."

Howard Dean, American Politician

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"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted."

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"Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam."

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"There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem."

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"There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers."

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"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."

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"However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates a broken system."

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"And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian."

"The problems of our country are very fast to recognize."

"You know, having been an election monitor in countries across the world, I can tell you that we would never certify another country's election if it had as many flaws in place as we had in Florida."

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"The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control."

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"Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted."

"Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam."

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"I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war."

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"There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers."