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| It may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant |
| Lillian Hellman |
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| My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial. |
| Charles de Gaulle |
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| No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. |
| Henry Kissinger |
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| Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then |
| Tom Lehrer |
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| Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time. |
| Charles de Gaulle |
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| Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression. |
| James A. Michener |
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| The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried them further, in exposure to hardship and danger, than ever the New England colonist went, and led them, though not to clear and colonize the wilderness, yet |
| Henry David Thoreau |
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| The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms... where there are good arms there must be good laws... |
| Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor |
| Helen Keller |
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| The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad |
| George Orwell |
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| The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms - you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow |
| Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England |
| John Stuart Mill |
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| This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. |
| Elbert Hubbard |
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| To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke. |
| Alvin Toffler |
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| What a cruel reflection that a rich country cannot long be a free one. |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all. |
| Arthur Miller |
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| You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer |
| Frank Zappa |
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