"There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries."

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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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"Our nation must come together to unite."

George W. Bush, American President

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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."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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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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"There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism."

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"I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war."

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"I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke."

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"There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own."

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"Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam."

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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."

"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."

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

"Our nation must come together to unite."

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

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

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

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

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

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"There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism."

"I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war."

"I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke."

"There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own."

"Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam."

"How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?"

"What we want is to become masters in our own house."

"All war aims for impunity."

"I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism."

"It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves."