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“I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Aslan to lead it. I’m going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn’t any Narnia.”
Quote by -C.S. Lewis
“My first big mission for UNICEF in Ethiopia was just to attract attention, before it was too late, to conditions which threatened the whole country. My role was to inform the world, to make sure that the people of Ethiopia were not forgotten.”
Quote by -Audrey Hepburn
But what more oft in Nations grown corrupt, And by thir vices brought to servitude, Than to love Bondage more than Liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty;
Quote by -John Milton
How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.
Quote by -John Milton
"In my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night"
Quote by -Allen Ginsberg
"America I've given you all and now I'm nothing... I can't stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb."
Quote by -Allen Ginsberg
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization.... If such war-making weapons are developed, they should - but only for purposes of peaceful experimentation....
Quote by -Thomas A Edison
Be courageous! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation.... Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward!
Quote by -Thomas A Edison
You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.
Quote by -Eartha Kitt
The charge that the United Nations are using bacteriological warfare in Korea cannot be dismissed merely because it would be insane.
Quote by -Doris Lessing
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
Quote by -Bertrand Russell
"One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other."
Quote by -Theodore Roosevelt
"There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else."
Quote by -Theodore Roosevelt
"There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else."
Quote by -Theodore Roosevelt
"My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man"
Quote by -John F Kennedy
"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource."
Quote by -John F Kennedy
"We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living."
Quote by -John F Kennedy
"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."
Quote by -John F Kennedy
"It's astonishing that a sophisticated nation like Canada has dragged its feet for so long while the rest of the world has adapted its copyright laws to the digital age. The digital music world is moving on - Canada must move with it, or its whole music culture will suffer."
Quote by -John F Kennedy
"If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to allââ¬âexcept the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty."
Quote by -John F Kennedy
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty."
Quote by -John F Kennedy
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
Quote by -John F Kennedy
"A nation that destroys it's soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people."
Quote by -Franklin D. Roosevelt
"I have found out in later years that my family was very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it. [On his childhood]"
Quote by -Dwight D. Eisenhower
"If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order."
Quote by -Dwight D. Eisenhower
"When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it"
Quote by -Joseph Joubert
"To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny."
Quote by -Simone Weil
"What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them"
Quote by -Henry Ford
"Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms."
Quote by -Robert Ingersoll
"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."
Quote by -Dan Quayle
"The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them"
Quote by -George Bernard Shaw
"We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners"
Quote by -George Bernard Shaw
"The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them."
Quote by -George Bernard Shaw
"I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforcement problem to considering terrorist attacks, especially on the scale we have on 9/11, as being an act of war."
Quote by -Dick Cheney
"In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job."
Quote by -Dick Cheney
"It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done."
Quote by -Dick Cheney
"I worked for George Bush. I'm proud to have worked for him. I think that a lot of the most controversial things we did, that people didn't like and - and criticized us for, things like the terror surveillance program or the enhanced interrogation techniques, were things that allowed us to save lives."
Quote by -Dick Cheney