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Nation Quotes
"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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"These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered."
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"Intolerance has been the curse of our country."
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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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"We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?"
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"Hopefully as a country, that we learn from our mistakes of the past."
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"A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia."
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"We are the greatest country in the world but we are facing serious issues."
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"The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation."
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"To the extent that the United States has, I don't like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don't think that's based on to any significant degree on the fact that countries use the dollar as their major reserve."
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"It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book."
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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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"The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries."
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"We must look after our own before lining the pockets of overseas countries and investors."
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"I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned."
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"And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool."
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"These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries."
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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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"It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas."
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"As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty."
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"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?"
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"If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids across the country, are challenging kids to learn foreign languages or challenging kids to get summer jobs or seek summer enrichment opportunities?"
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"It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past."
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"How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?"
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"Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill."
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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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"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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"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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"There is a certain amount of momentum that is achieved when one country after another reopens their borders."
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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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"When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly."
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"In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves."
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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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"Today, credit rating agencies rate companies, countries and bonds."
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"Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps."
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