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Nation Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
- We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
- The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact…
- No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity…
- Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in…
- I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation…
- In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.
- No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon…
- I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a…
- A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will…
- The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in…
- Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.
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- Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the… — Joe Baca
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- The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest school districts… — Joe Baca
- My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation. — Michele Bachmann
- I am convinced in my heart and in my mind that if the United States fails to stand with Israel, that is… — Michele Bachmann
- 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