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Nations
«A nation that cannot preserve itself ought to die, and it will die - die in the grasp of the evils it is too feeble to overthrow»
«A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character»
Author: Otto Bauer
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Nations
«Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.»
«A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
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Liberty,
Nations
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liberties
«A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
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Nations
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recognizes, resentment
«A nation without dregs and malcontents, is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come»
«A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.»
«A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
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Ideals,
Nations,
Patriotism
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honors, remembers
«A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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Diplomacy,
Military,
Nations
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approaching, continues, defense program, programs, spiritual death, uplift, uplifted, uplifting, uplifts