Famous Quotes: Nation

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
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America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
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I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.
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Ignorance is a menace to peace.
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By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.
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The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
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The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.
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Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.
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The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
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The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
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I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.
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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
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The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
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President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?
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The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
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