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“Nations do not mistrust each other because they are armed; they are armed because they mistrust each other.”
Ronald Reagan
“The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground”
Winston Churchill
“A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril”
“If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell”
Thomas Merton
“Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.”
Will Rogers
“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.”
Dalai Lama
“Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.”
Albert Einstein
“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
“Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.”
Charles Handy