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I am the state.
-Louis XIV
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All the nationalists are wasms -- except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.
-John Lukacs
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States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.
-Niccolo Machiavelli
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The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there.
-Edouard Manes
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The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. About Russia
-Karl Marx
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
-W. Somerset Maugham
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Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. You are the bastards of Humanity. Soldiers without a banner, Israelites among the nations, you will find neither faith nor protection; none will be sureties for you. Do not beguile yourselves with the hope of emancipation from unjust social conditions if you do not first conquer a Country for yourselves.
-Giuseppe Mazzini
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A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.
-Giuseppe Mazzini
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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
-Golda Meir
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Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.
-John Milton
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
-Moli
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The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.
-Conor Cruise O'Brien
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An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
-Austin O'Malley
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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
-George Orwell
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No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country, Thus far shalt thou go and no further.
-Charles Stewart Parnell
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
-Plato
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There is always something new out of Africa.
-Pliny The Elder
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Pervading materialism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The most sacred principles, which were the sure guides for the behaviour of individuals and society, are being hollowed out by false pretences concerning freedom, the sacredness of life, the indissolubility of marriage, the true sense of human sexuality, the right attitude towards the material goods that progress has to offer. Many people now are tempted to self-indulgence and consumerism, and human identity is often defined by what one owns. Prosperity and affluence, even when they are only beginning to be available to larger strata of society, tend to make people assume that they have a right to all that prosperity can bring, and thus they can become more selfish in their demands. Everybody wants a full freedom in all the areas of human behaviour and new models of morality are being proposed in the name of would-be freedom. When the moral fibre of a nation is weakened, when the sense of personal responsibility is diminished, then the door is open for the justification of injustices, for violence in all its forms, and for the manipulation of the many by the few. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
-Pope John Paul II, Holy Mass in Pheonix Park, Dublin (homily), September 29, 1979
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Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
-Pope John XXIII
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If there be no nobility of descent in a nation, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent -- a character in them that bear rule, so fine and high and pure, that as men come within the circle of its influence, they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the Royalty of Virtue.
-Henry Codman Potter
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
-V. S. Pritchett
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Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
-Colonel Muhammar Qaddafi
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It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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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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Books about Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
