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Tag Name "Nations" (1541)

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Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.
Abraham Lincoln
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Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
Charles Baudelaire
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Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.
William J. H. Boetcker
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Nations endure only as long as their topsoil.
Henry Cantwell Wallace
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Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.
Fritz Leiber
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Nations, like individuals, live and die but civilization cannot die.
Giuseppe Mazzini
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Nations are less disposed to make revolutions in proportion as personal property is augmented and distributed among them, and as the number of those possessing it is increased.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.
Robert Frost
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Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.
Rufus Jones
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Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
Claude McKay
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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Nations will march towards the apex of their greatness at the same pace as their education. Nations will soar if their education soars they will regress if it regresses. Nations will fall and sink in darkness if education is corrupted or completely abandoned
Simon Bolivar
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Nations die first in the big cities.
Austin O'Malley
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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
Ellen Glasgow
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Nations touch at their summits.
Walter Bagehot
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Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
Abdul Kalam
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Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.
Bryant H. McGill
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice we cannot have both.
Abraham Flexner
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Nations do not die from invasion they die from internal rottenness.
Abraham Lincoln
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Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the dominant few.
Carlos P. Romulo
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Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.
Carroll O'Connor
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Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. They do everything in their power not to have any. And therefore, the great man, in order to exist, must possess a force of attack which is greater than the force of resistance developed by millions of people.
Charles Baudelaire
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Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?
Henry David Thoreau
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