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Nation Quotes
"American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World."
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"You may keep Turkey on the map of Europe, you may call the country by the name of Turkey if you like, but do not think you can keep up the Mahommedan rule in the country."
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"A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries."
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"The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in."
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"It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation."
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"Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive."
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"Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also."
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"Washington should revive international efforts begun during the Clinton administration to pressure countries with dangerously loose banking regulations to adopt and enforce stricter rules."
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"We are the greatest country in the world but we are facing serious issues."
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"I expect an energy bill to increase and diversify supply and stabilize energy prices - not drive up energy costs in one part of the country to subsidize energy in another region."
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"Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one."
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"No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils."
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"I strongly believe that we as a nation can be both secure and free."
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"This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy."
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"I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her."
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"Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter."
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"We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past."
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"My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right."
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"We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions."
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"Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence."
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"September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for."
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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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"We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world."
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"How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?"
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"In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency."
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"It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction."
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"There is a certain amount of momentum that is achieved when one country after another reopens their borders."
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"A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things."
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"When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly."
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"There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level."
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"The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia."
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"Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election."
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"We must honor our country's tradition of openness and continue to welcome new immigrants."
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"Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion."
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"The fact is that it is reasonable for us to say that there is going to be an emergency that happens in this country that we cannot budget for. Katrina is an example."
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