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“There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which . is within the souls of men.”
Black Elk
“No matter what other nations may say about the United States, immigration is still the sincerest form of flattery.”
Clayton Cramer
““It is said that no-one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones,” Mr Mandela has said.”
Nelson Mandela
“By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.”
Edmund Burke
“Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.”
Ulysses S. Grant
“No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise”
Marian Anderson
“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.”
George W. Bush
“This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.”
John Steinbeck
“Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.”
Brendan Behan