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We are a purely idealistic Nation but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness.

— Jimmy Carter

“To understand your country you must love it. To love it you must, in a sense, accept it. To accept it as it is,…

— Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

— Bertrand Russell

“never ceased to amaze him how a discredited philosophy and a repressive nation still attracted idealists.”

— Nelson DeMille

A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

— Abba Eban

America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its…

— Alistair Cooke

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth,…

— Terry Eagleton

“I believe the greatness of a country is directly proportionate to what it pays attention to and the intrinsic value of that thing.”

— Daniel J Muhlestein

If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest. If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed…

— Laozi

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

— Aldous Huxley

“I judge the people and the nations by their ideals; the higher the ideals, the profounder the person, the greater the nation.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Loving own country is to love peace

— Aftab Alam