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“Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Money, not morality, is the principle of commerce and commercial nations”
Thomas Jefferson
“How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it”
Dave Barry
“India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.”
Winston Churchill
“Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.”
Albert Einstein
“Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.”
Abraham Flexner
“Our nation must come together to unite.”
George W. Bush
“Rise and fall of a nation rests with every one of its citizens.”
Chinese Proverbs
