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

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"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

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"As a South African I honestly cannot understand how people can't see South Africa as a unique nation, untied by ties of history, bonds of suffering, victory, struggles, hope - and in more ways than I ever before thought possible - blood."

Christina Engela, South African Author

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"Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself."

Dan Quayle, American Vice President

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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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"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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"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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"Liberty is the prevention of control by others."

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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."

Family

"Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin."

Nature

"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."

Authority

"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."

Time

"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."

Government

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

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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."

"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."

"As a South African I honestly cannot understand how people can't see South Africa as a unique nation, untied by ties of history, bonds of suffering, victory, struggles, hope - and in more ways than I ever before thought possible - blood."

"Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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"Liberty is the prevention of control by others."

"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."

"Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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