"When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open."

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"When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open."

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

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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

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"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."

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

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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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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

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

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"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."

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"One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but also to the stability of the world."

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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."

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"I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America."

Politics

"Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties."

Power

"These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt."

Nation

"The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France."

People

"The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years."

History

"It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime."

Nation

"Che came in 1963, shortly after I had come to power."

Power

"I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech."

Age

"My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation."

Life

"Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there."

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