"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."

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"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."

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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

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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

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

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"Our nation must come together to unite."

George W. Bush, American President

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"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Compared to the United States and certainly a lot of other countries around the world... per year, Australians do see more films."

David Pratt, Canadian Politician

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"Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country's well-being."

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"The greatest men, you can quote for everything."

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"History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong."

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"If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation."

Knowledge

"Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will."

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"Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country."

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"Liberty is the prevention of control by others."

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"The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition."

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"By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead."

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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

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"By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion."

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