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“No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. You could afford your house without the government-if it weren't for the government. Character matters; leadership descends from character. If you commit a crime, you're guilty. Compassion is no substitute for justice. Poverty is not the root cause of crime. The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.”
“No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.”
Source: A System of Penal Law for the State of Louisiana
“No nation has been able to establish itself, as a nation in Palestine up to this
day, no national union and no national spirit have prevailed there. The motley,
impoverished tribes which have occupied it have held it as mere tenants at will,
temporary landowners, evidently waiting for those entitled to the permanent
possession of the soil.”
“No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.”
“No nation has ever been ruined by trade.”
“No nation has ever benefited from a prolonged war.”
“No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.”
Source: Willa Cather in person: interviews, speeches, and letters
“No nation has ever prospered or been blessed like the colored people in the South.”
“No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.”
“No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.”
“No nation has the right to bring about a revolution, even though such a change may be most urgently needed, if the price is the blood of one single innocent individual.”
“No nation has the right to make decisions for another nation; no people for another people.”
Source: Man and Development: Binadamu Na Maendeleó
“No nation has the right to revenge itself or rush to eliminate people just because they cause society anxiety. They should be healed instead of given such inhuman punishment.”
Source: Papillon
“No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.”
“No nation in Latin America is weak-- because each forms part of a family of 200 million brothers, who suffer the same miseries, who harbour the same sentiments, who have the same enemy, who dream about the same better future and who count upon the solidarity of all honest men and women throughout the world. Great as was the epic of Latin American independence, heroic as was that struggle, today's generation of Latin Americans is called upon to engage in an epic which is even greater and more decisive for humanity. For that struggle was for liberation from Spanish colonial power, from a decadent Spain invaded by the armies of Napoleon. Today the call for struggle is for liberation from the most powerful world imperialist centre, from the strongest force of world imperialism, and to render humanity a greater service than that rendered by our predecessors.”
Source: The Declarations of Havana
“No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964
“No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.”
“No nation is better than its sacred book. In that book are expressed its highest ideals of life, and no nation rises above those ideals. No nation has a sacred book to be compared with ours. This American nation from its first settlement at Jamestown to the present hour is based upon and permeated by the principles of the Bible. The more this Bible enters into our national life the grander and purer and better will that life become.”
“No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage”
Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
“No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.”
Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
“No nation is ever taller than when on its knees.”
“No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.”
“No nation is greater than another. The difference is people and the leaders.”
“No nation is holy, till its streets are built for walking, not to starve on.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity”
Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness
“No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations”
“No nation is truly free until the animal, man's younger brother is free and happy.”
“No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.”
“No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep.”
“No nation like the United States of America can continue to grow and be a strong nation if we are going to judge people because they disagree with our agenda rather than the content of their statements. We have to be critical thinkers. We have to be analytical. We should understand facts from emotion.”
“No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.”
Source: Addresses on International Subjects
“No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.”
Source: The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies
“No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.”
Source: Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris
“No nation respects a beggar.”
Source: Message to the Blackman in America
“No nation's flag is great or glorious if it flies over the weak and downtrodden, even if they raise and protect it out of misguided allegiance.”
Source: Voice of Reason
“No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.”
“No nation was ever ruined by trade.”
Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818
“No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.”
Source: Justice in War-time
“No nation went into oblivion or was destroyed because it had bad laws, or because its statesmen were not intelligent, but because of INTERNAL CORRUPTION, and because they could not maintain the POWER OF SELF-CONTROL.”
“No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women.”
Source: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh: June 2007 to May 2008
“No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders”
“No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966
“No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.”
“No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.”
“No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.”
“No necesitaba otro sitio ni otro nombre, necesitaba querer salvarme.”
Source: Aunque llueva fuego
“No necesitamos tanto de la ayuda de nuestros amigos cuanto de la confianza en esa ayuda.”
Source: Obras completas
“No necesitas cerrar ciclos, necesitas dejar de abrir los mismos”
“No necesitas nada de nadie, a menos que sea el tipo de amor que te elige primero, siempre.”
Source: F*ck Love