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“The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.”

Knows Form Nations Loss Identity Defeat Contemporary Inevitable Colonization National Identity

Author:Slobodan Milosević

“No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.”

Ifs Nations Growth Loses Loss Virtue Deserve Regard Dues Luxury Ease Permit Twisted Indulgence Heartless Absorbing Sentimentality Effortless Commercialism

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.”

World Book States Reading Nations Loss United United States Support Reader Western Magazines Civilized Devoted Book Reading Western World Civilized Nations

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians? I think that they have.”

Thinking Reason Asks Nations Loss Moral Morality Pressure Barbarians

Author:Barbara Tuchman

“the higher the development of women, the more they suffer from the 'patriotic' mandate to bear many children to replace the nation's losses. For they know that, from the point of view of their personal development as well as that of the race, fewer but better children are to be preferred.”

Knows Wells Children Suffering Nations Loss Views Race Development Bears Higher Point Of View Personal Development Patriotic Fewer Mandates

Author:Ellen Key

“Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.”

Law Order Nations Social Causes Loss Rights Independence Soldier Empires Thrones Cowardly Social Order Magistrates

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered.”

Men World War Country Young Nations Loss Cutting Poet Young Man Designer Thinker Scholar Great War

Author:James Vila Blake

“Scripture says: "Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted." I call on every American family and the family of America to observe a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, honoring the memory of the thousands of victims of these brutal attacks and comforting those who lost loved ones. We will persevere through this national tragedy and personal loss. In time, we will find healing and recovery; and, in the face of all this evil, we remain strong and united, "one Nation under God."”

“Who among us is not at a loss for words? Tears pour out. Tears of joy. Tears of relief. A stunning, whopping landslide of hope in a time of deep despair. In a nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs of slaves, it was an unexpected moment, shocking in its simplicity: Barack Obama, a good man, a black man, said he would bring change to Washington, and the majority of the country liked that idea.”

“Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a tenfold value. But the landed monopoly that began with it has produced the greatest evil. It has dispossessed more than half the inhabitants of every nation of their natural inheritance, without providing for them, as ought to have been done, an indemnification for that loss, and has thereby created a species of poverty and wretchedness that did not exist before.”

Source: Agrarian Justice

“Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.”

Want May Nations Loss Liberty Policy Affair Neighbor Stability Betray Wiser Betrayed Systematic

Book:The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788

Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788

“The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.”

Should Nations Loss Warning Sovereignty Lost Friendship European Countries

Author:Phyllis Schlafly

“America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.”

Men Wells Enough America Fighting Nations Causes Loss Sacrifice Return Gratitude Men And Women Ultimate Paid Blessed Soldier Debt Battlefields Great Nations Military Service Debt Of Gratitude

Author:Allen Boyd

“He hath disgrac'd me and hind'red me half a million; laugh'd at my losses, mock'd at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies. And what's his reason? I am a Jew.”

Reason Nations Loss Half Enemy Millions Laughing My Friends Gains Red Jew Bargains Mock Scorned

Book:The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: All 214 Plays, Sonnets, Poems & Apocryphal Plays (Including the Biography of the Author): Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, The Tempest, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errorsäó_

Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: All 214 Plays, Sonnets, Poems & Apocryphal Plays (Including the Biography of the Author): Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, The Tempest, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errorsäó_