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A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity. -
Jimmy Carter
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I don't even know what street Canada is on. -
Al Capone
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England can never be ruined except by a Parliament. -
Lord Burleigh
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Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe. -
Edmund Burke
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A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered. -
Edmund Burke
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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world. -
Malcolm Bradbury
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Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older. -
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still. -
Randolph Churchill
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In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best. -
Walter Bagehot
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France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper. -
Billy Wilder
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts -- the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. -
John Ruskin
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The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. -
John Ruskin
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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right. -
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could. -
George Bernard Shaw
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The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people. -
Lydia Sigourney
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. -
Jonathan Swift
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Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world. -
Henry David Thoreau
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