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“But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.”

Years Firsts Country Government Spirit Four Changed Thousand Succeed Series Injustice Thousand Years Conquest

Author:Ezra Stiles

“May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.”

May Children Country Causes Enjoy United Generations Thousand Benefits Our Children Institutions Glorious Rejoice

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live”

May Country Dies Regret Ought Citizens Thousand Hundred Virtuous

Author:Maximilien Robespierre

“At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.”

Years Stills Country Song Voice Powerful Issues Industry Calling Thousand Environmental Elders Statesmen Nelson Environmental Issues

Author:Willie Nelson

“Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids!”

Country States Sports Forever Drink Thousand Ten Gold Mad Fingers Ministers Midas

Book:William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems

Source: William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems

“I was much an enemy to monarchies before I came to Europe. I am ten thousand times more so, since I have seen what they are. There is scarcely an evil known in these countries, which may not be traced to their king, as its source, nor a good, which is not derived from the small fibres of republicanism existing among them.”

May Country Evil Known Enemy Source Kings Thousand Ten Europe Monarchy Republicanism

Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.”

Country Kindness Promise Thousand Died Concentration Neglect Camps Other Countries Tempted Spain Concentration Camp Spaniards False Promises

Author:Martha Gellhorn

“I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.”

I Can Country Reading Silence Walking Thousand My Friends Eight Miles Family And Friends Find Me All Alone Miles Away Foreign Countries Thousand Miles Unreachable I Love My Friends Most Favorite

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“The light has gone out of our lives... Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light... and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it... For that light represented the living truth.”

World Years Stills Country Light Gone Our Lives Atheism Thousand Ordinary Positive Atheism Thousand Years

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru