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Nation Quotes by Edmund Burke
- By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
- There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country,…
- A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.
- I dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded....We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing…
- A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
- War never leaves where it found a nation.
- Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents…
- The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and…
- The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the…
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- My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation. — Michele Bachmann
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- Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. — Honore de Balzac
- The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. — Francis Bacon
- Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! — Honore de Balzac