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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."
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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."
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"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."
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"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."
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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 proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it."
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"Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in."
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"There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it."
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"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."
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"If Iran becomes a nuclear weapon state it is the end of non-proliferation as we know it. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon you are likely to see Saudi, Egypt and other countries follow suit and we will bequeath to the next generation a nuclear arms race in the world's most unstable region."
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"No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy."
Enemy
"Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year."
Truth
"England expects that every man will do his duty."
Duty
"First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can."
Victory
"If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting."
Power
"Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone."
Nation
"I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!"
Leadership
"Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil."
Devil
"In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them."
Will
"Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat."
Time
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