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“The only way to neutralize the effect of public journals is to multiply them indefinitely.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“The Indians had only the two alternatives of war or civilization; in other words, they must either have destroyed the Europeans or become their equals.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
Beyond doubt it would speedily verify the proverb that a nation must ravage itself before foreigners can ravage it, a man must despise himself before others can despise him.
Quote by -Yukio Mishima
Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, and I've got news for everyone: I'm not an African.
Quote by -Whoopi Goldberg
There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
Quote by -Willa Cather
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
Quote by -Willa Cather
Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons.
Quote by -Willa Cather
How nations and races of men are to be so governed as may be most conducive to the improvement and happiness of all is one of the most interesting questions that can be offered to our consideration.
Quote by -William Godwin
I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog.
Quote by -William Shatner
The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.
Quote by -William Tecumseh Sherman
In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
Quote by -William Tecumseh Sherman
I think the American people should express their preferences, and we'll accept their choice.
Quote by -Vladimir Putin
The United States and Russian security services regularly exchange information.
Quote by -Vladimir Putin
Russia and China are very natural partners. We are neighbors with an immense common border.
Quote by -Vladimir Putin
If the nation is not capable of preserving itself and reproducing, if it loses it vital bearings and ideals, then it doesn't need foreign enemies - it will fall apart on its own.
Quote by -Vladimir Putin
Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy. I want to say, and even stress, that we share those universal democratic principles taken around the whole world.
Quote by -Vladimir Putin
For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.
Quote by -Vladimir Putin
In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.
Quote by -Vladimir Putin
The Eurasian union is a project meant to preserve the identities of nations and the historic Eurasian community in the new century, in a new world.
Quote by -Vladimir Putin
At least in Russia, you cannot just go and tap into someone's phone conversation without a warrant issued by court. That's more or less the way a civilized society should go about fighting terrorism.
Quote by -Vladimir Putin
National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.
Quote by -Umberto Eco
To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.
Quote by -Tahar Ben Jelloun
He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in himselfe, not this, or that particular man; but Man-kind;
Quote by -Thomas Hobbes
Though she knew even less about radios than about Southern Californians, there were to both outward patterns a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meaning, of an intent to communicate.
Quote by -Thomas Pynchon
Let us respect others no one lives alone in a city, a nation, or a world.
Quote by -Thomas Spencer Monson
I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.
Quote by -Tony Benn
We have a number of difficulties facing our nation, but I believe fatherlessness is right at the top of the list.
Quote by -Tony Dungy
I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Quote by -Steven Spielberg
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.
Quote by -Steven Spielberg
An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation.
Quote by -Susan B. Anthony
Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?
Quote by -Robert Duvall
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
Quote by -George Orwell
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
Quote by -H. L. Mencken