"One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other."

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"One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other."

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"I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me."

Neil Kinnock, Spanish Politician

Nation, Country

"The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law."

William Joyce, American Author

Nation, Country, Law, Road

"We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today."

Stephen Ambrose, American Historian

Nation, Country, Existence, Today

"I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world."

Robert Caro, American Writer

Nation, Country, First, Machine, Trying

"I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues."

Alex Morrison, Canadian Soldier

Nation, Nations, States, United

"Hurricane Katrina this past week was certainly the worst episode in what has become an all-too-familiar and tragic cycle, and our nation is now faced with a set of unprecedented challenges."

Jo Bonner, American Politician

Nation, Now, Past

"Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?"

Thomas Sowell, American Economist

Nation, Country, Globalwarming, Tomorrow, Weather

"It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation."

Lord John Russell, British Politician

Nation, Voice, Whisper

"I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even ten years, fifteen years later, I would have gone to where the wild ducks were and where I could study them - I would have gone to the country somewhere."

Robert McCloskey, American Author

Nation, Country, Study, Today, Years

"There is here, as in all countries, advantages and disadvantages."

Nathaniel Smith, American Politician

Nation, Countries

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"The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death."

Death

"Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows."

Man

"What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?"

Present

"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."

Suicide

"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."

Life

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"I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me."

"The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law."

"We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today."

"I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world."

"I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues."

"Hurricane Katrina this past week was certainly the worst episode in what has become an all-too-familiar and tragic cycle, and our nation is now faced with a set of unprecedented challenges."

"Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?"

"It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation."

"I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even ten years, fifteen years later, I would have gone to where the wild ducks were and where I could study them - I would have gone to the country somewhere."

"There is here, as in all countries, advantages and disadvantages."

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"The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death."

"Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows."

"What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?"

"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."

"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."

"One hardly saves a world without ruling it."

"Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen."

"Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown."

"Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea."

"Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls."