"A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation."

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"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."

"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."

"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."

"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."

"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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