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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."
"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
"As a South African I honestly cannot understand how people can't see South Africa as a unique nation, untied by ties of history, bonds of suffering, victory, struggles, hope - and in more ways than I ever before thought possible - blood."
"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."
"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."
"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."
"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."
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"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order."
"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases."
"Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide."
"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
"Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power."
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