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Voltaire

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

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"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

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"The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs."

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"The security of our country is not just a top priority, it's the top priority."

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

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"President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how."

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"Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win."

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

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"The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known."

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"There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself."

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"A whole nation cannot rise above itself."

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"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."
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"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
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