"I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country."

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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

Nation, Country, Dignity, Importance, Office

"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

Nation, Country, Democrats, Republican, Republicans

"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

Nation, Nations, Right, United, Vote

"Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?"

Alfred de Vigny, French Poet

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"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country."

Meg Whitman, American Businessman

Nation, Country, Economy, State, States

"Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country."

Penelope Lively, English Author

Nation, Country, Deep, Feeling

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

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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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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"The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe."

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"I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal."

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"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."

Experience

"I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance."

Lifestyle

"I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman."

Family

"Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it."

Effort

"I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come."

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"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

"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."

"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."

"Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?"

"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."

"One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country."

"Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country."

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

"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."

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

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"The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe."

"I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal."

"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."

"I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance."

"I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman."

"Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it."

"The Thames is liquid history."

"Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand."

"I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing."

"I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come."