Quote by George Monbiot

“A nation is only an individual multiplied. It makes plans and Circumstances comes and upsets them—or enlarges them. Some patriots throw the tea overboard;…

— Mark Twain

“America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation.”

— Georges Clemenceau

“What people discard could make a nation”

— Don DeLillo

“But in America the sovereignty of the people is neither hidden nor sterile as with some other nations; mores recognize it, and the laws…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty. The history of nations doomed to perpetual…

— Ethan Allen

“Chapter 4 Tyranny Is Tyranny Around 1776, certain important people in the English colonies made a discovery that would prove enormously useful for the…

— Howard Zinn

“No nation has ever been able to transform by chance. Its always a deliberate and conscious process”

— Fela Durotoye

“In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should point out to us the paths of liberty. The great…

— Anonymous

“With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.”

— Arnold Beichman

“No nation, whatever its power, can be called great when it imposes tyranny upon its citizens—worse, upon people it claims as its citizens, not”

— Ada Palmer

“It seemed that owning one man made you a scoundrel, but owning an entire nation made you a colonial benefactor.”

— Nelson A. Denis

“every American is governed only by the principle of personal responsibility and that his or her most important freedom is the absolute freedom to…

— Susan Wittig Albert