First place Quote by Anne Applebaum

“What the politicians all feared the most. The people, the descendants of those who built this country and made it great, would one day…

— Mike Foster

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excersize…

— Abe Lincoln

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

“Finally, we will also discuss how the failure of nations today is heavily influenced by their institutional histories, how much policy advice is informed…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“I understood we were now left all on our own in a country heading into the unknown and prepared constantly for war. A country…

— Armando Lucas Correa

“The truths and philosophies explored in the saga offer lessons seemingly lost on nation after nation, since they fail to learn from and inevitably…

— Glenn G. Thater

“If we are undone, we are the most splendidly ruined of any nation in the universe.”

— Charles Thomson

“But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair of a motorcycle because it is a system…

— Robert M Pirsig

“A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.”

— George W. Bush

“Can the readers who did not experience this [the war] imagine what it is like to watch the complete destruction of one’s country: the…

— N Malathy

“What people discard could make a nation”

— Don DeLillo

“It is my assertion, however, that the project of remaking humanity and defining identity has been at the core of this century, and that…

— Omer Bartov