"The United States is historically a nation of immigrants."

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

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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

Voltaire, French Writer

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself."

Herodotus, Greek Historian

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

Azar Nafisi, Iranian Writer

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"I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq."

Loss

"If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature."

Crime

"I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society."

Society

"The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way."

Equality

"Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation."

Nature

"I'm in the kitchen and I'm not walking out."

Determination

"The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear."

Act

"There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack."

Destruction

"Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all."

Government

"Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight."

Man