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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts -- the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
-John Ruskin
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The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
-John Ruskin
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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
-George Bernard Shaw
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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
-George Bernard Shaw
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The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.
-Lydia Sigourney
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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations--great or small--to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
-Adlai Stevenson
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The English have a heavy hearted way of amusing themselves.
-Sully
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Russia has abolished God, but so far God has been tolerant.
-John Swayze
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
-Jonathan Swift
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Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.
-Henry David Thoreau
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The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
-Harry S Truman
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Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.
-Mark Twain
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France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
-Mark Twain
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Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.
-Mark Twain
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It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
-Giambattista Vico
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The Britons are quite separated from all the world.
-Virgil
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How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
-Charles Dudley Warner
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
-Simone Weil
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France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
-Billy Wilder
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France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper.
-Billy Wilder
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Books about Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
