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Nation Quotes
"Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions."
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"Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain."
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"Our country is the world - our countrymen are all mankind."
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"All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations."
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"I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic."
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"Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter."
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"Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?"
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"Our universities and museums are respected around the country."
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"Hopefully as a country, that we learn from our mistakes of the past."
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"The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa."
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"Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed."
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"You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country."
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"A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation."
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"Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country."
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"However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates a broken system."
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"Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free."
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"I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands."
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"Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989."
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"The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it."
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"By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them."
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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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"This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy."
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"It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi."
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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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"I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods."
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"The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce."
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"Creating a nation requires the will of the people!"
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"Every single country that has an auto industry is stepping forward to help that auto industry. Why wouldn't we help this industry too, because it needs 3.5 million jobs."
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"This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social Security go bankrupt within ten years, we have a debt that is looming so high that in the last year of President Obama's budget just the interest payments on our debt is $916 billion dollars."
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"Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot."
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"There is more than enough room in the world for Germany and Britain."
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"Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world."
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