"Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages."

Nation, Country, Journey, Medicine

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"Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages."

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

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"No holidays, no country."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone."

William Weld, American Politician

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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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"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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"Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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Explore more quotes by James Madison

"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."

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"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."

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"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."

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"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."

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"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."

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"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?"

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"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."

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"The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war."

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"In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority."

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"The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science."

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