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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

Nation, Rest, Will

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Nation, Country, Dying, Killing, Talk

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

Gertrude Stein, American Author

Nation, Country

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

Voltaire, French Writer

Nation, Country

"Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country's well-being."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Nation, Prayerful, Intercede, Well-being

"The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Nation, Country, Proof

"Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in."

Azar Nafisi, Iranian Writer

Nation, Country

"There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Nation, Country, Nothing, Will

"But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living."

Fay Godwin, British Photographer

Nation, Country, First, Living, Writers

Explore more quotes by Peter Bichsel

"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."

Poems

"Writers let themselves be enticed by the language."

Language

"Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship."

Heart

"That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer."

Literature

"I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody."

Creativity

"It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile."

People

"The problems of our country are very fast to recognize."

Nation

"I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging."

Ambition

"Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts."

Literature