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- Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind....he trades with the same countries ...(that he)…
- I consider the war of America against Britain as the country's war, the public's war, or the war of the people in their own behalf,…
- Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and…
- I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must originally spring - I despair…
- No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or…
- My country is wherever liberty lives.
- Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a…
- One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value and the uncertainty…
- There never did, there never will, and there never can exist a parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of men, in any…
- In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that it can never…
- The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country.
- I die content, I die for the liberty of my country.
- The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
- My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
- Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion…
- Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law…
- These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the service of his…
- That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as…
- Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable…
- The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
- That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as…
- When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them;…
- Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city…
- When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was…
- We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
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- It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — Hannah Arendt
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or… — Chinua Achebe
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country. — Chinua Achebe
- Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself. — Margaret Atwood
- I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood