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Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is… — Gough Whitlam
A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations. — Mark Richard
Perfection is a disease of a nation. — Beyonce Knowles
I look upon the People and the Nation as handed on to me as an responsibility conferred upon me by God, and I believe, as… — Wilhelm II
Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building. — George W. Bush
I admire young people who are concerned with the affairs of their community and nation perhaps because I also became involved in struggle whist I… — Nelson Mandela
Fight them with your faith in God, fight them in defense of every free honorable woman and every innocent child, and in defense of the… — Saddam Hussein
The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its… — Unknown Author
Dr. Lourie's determined and compassionate advocacy led to new and improved services for thousands of children and families across the nation... the Lourie Center has… — C. Everett Koop
The Lourie Center provides much-needed services for our youngest and most vulnerable children and their families in our region. Their work and groundbreaking research help… — Unknown Author
Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its object the preservation… — Mikhail Bakunin
Who can sum up all the ills the women of a nation suffer from war? They have all of the misery and none of the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear annihilation... I believe… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
...perhaps that is what ultimately unites us as a world: the fact that, no matter how prosperous a nation, how developed, all share the plight… — Audrey Hepburn
As a nation, this is the moment to start seriously investing our time, energy and resources into proven methods of reducing violence, both within our… — Joaquin Phoenix
The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation… — Paul Wellstone
I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken… — Thomas Jefferson
Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely. — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people. — Charles Lindbergh
As a Chinese American legislator, I applaud the RNC's Growth and Opportunity Project. Engaging Asian American and Pacific Islander communities about Republican principles is a… — Kimberly Yee
Conservative principles place growth and opportunity at the forefront, and I look forward to the RNC continuing to promote those values in communities across the… — Tim Scott
Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners. — George Orwell
The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the… — Gerry Spence
Wilderness is an anchor to windward. Knowing it is there, we can also know that we are still a rich nation, tending our resources as… — Unknown Author

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