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Source: Trees by the river

“Education is the ultimate defense policy.”

Education Educational Philosophy Sociology Education System Social Studies Nation Building Demilitarization Defense Policy Defense Contractors Defense Industry

Book:Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“Education is the highest form of defense.”

Education National Security Educational Philosophy Education System Social Studies Nation Building Demilitarization Defense Policy Defense Contractors Defense Industry

Book:Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“A civilized world is not where everybody flocks to another nation to fulfill their dream, but where everybody can pursue their dream without feeling the need to become an immigrant.”

Success Education Immigration Social Issues Nation Building Pursuit Of Dreams Immigrant Emigration Exchange Students Studying Abroad

Book:Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Ten responsible and rational young citizens are sufficient to clean up the mess of a thousand old superstitious citizens.”

Wise Quotes Pearls Of Wisdom Patriotism Nationalism Wisdom Quotations Nation Building Making An Impact Citizens Of A Great Nation Making A Change

Book:When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders

Source: When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders

“Progress and partisanism don't go together.”

Politics Progress Political Parties Political Science Social Development Democratic Society Nation Building Nonpartisanism Partisanism

Book:Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Educate your children never to serve your nation; to serve the nation makes monkey out of human, killing on the basis of nationality and religion. If you wanna serve your nation, serve through science, serve through art, serve through music, literature, industry, but never through military.”

Military Patriotism Nationalism Soldiers War And Peace Nation Building Militarism Demilitarization National Service

Book:Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“If you wanna serve your nation, serve through science, serve through art, serve through music, literature, industry, but never through military.”

Military Patriotism Nationalism Public Service Soldiers War And Peace Nation Building Demilitarization National Service

Book:Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Science, arts, music, innovation, that's how you serve a nation. There is no greater dipsomaniac profession, than militarist infestation.”

Science Education Military Patriotism Nonviolence Patriot Peace Activist Soldiers Nation Building Demilitarization

Book:Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“You know what a hero is - 9 out of 10 times it's someone who's too tired or too hungry or too cold to give a damn - I don't give a damn - I don't give a damn about the consequences, all I know is, the society that has been handed over to us by our ancestors can't possibly be a human society, it's a society of good-looking savages - and I won't sit still on my couch whining about it like a spineless bug either - it's my society, and I'll either turn it into a human one, or perish in the attempt.”

Leadership Inspiring Hero Activism Heroism Social Responsibility Social Development Social Reform Nation Building Nation Builder

Book:Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity

Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity

“We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.”

Children Play Mother Values Asks Nations Roles Building Duty Integrity Drama Equal Commitment India Constitution Complexes Loyalty Nation Building

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.”

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Author:Al Franken

“I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work.”

Ifs Thinking Should Mind Eye Nations Understanding Clear Building Be You Nation Building

Author:Anthony Zinni

“We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.”

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Author:Marcus Garvey

“The message of reconciliation, of nation-building, of granting amnesty, indemnity, has struck a powerful, favorable chord. And people can understand that we're here not for purposes of retribution but to forget the past and to build our country.”

People Country Past Purpose Nations Forget Powerful Building Messages Our Country Chords Reconciliation Retribution Nation Building Amnesty Forget The Past

Author:Nelson Mandela

“Infrastructure sector is all about building assets for the country. It is part of nation building.”

Country Nations Building Assets Infrastructure Nation Building

Author:Gautam Adani

“I don't think we should be engaged in nation-building. It's not our job to turn foreign nations into democratic utopias, to try to turn Iraq into Switzerland. It is the military's job to hunt down and kill our enemies, to kill ISIS before they murder American citizens and they wage jihad.”

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Author:Ted Cruz

“Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.”

Firsts States Nations United Powerful Fiction United States Teaching Building Tools Iraq Afghanistan Vietnam Initials Very Powerful Philippines Nation Building Teaching History

Author:Miguel Syjuco

“What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.”

Home Nations Pieces Travel Territory Geography Nation Building

Author:Robert Frost

“I have seen people wanting to devote their time & energy to nation building. All they need is an opportunity. 'MyGov' is that opportunity!”

People Needs Opportunity Energy Nations Building India Governance Nation Building

Author:Narendra Modi

“Let the professionals like doctors & engineers teach in schools once a week. Let's make teaching a national movement necessary for Nation building.”

School Motivation Nations Teach Week Teaching Movement Building Doctors India Engineers Nation Building

Author:Narendra Modi

“We're not into nation-building. We're into justice.”

Nations Justice Building Nation Building

Author:George W. Bush

“Nation building is our central task, both in Afghanistan and in Iraq. And states, nations can't just be built with military power. Despite all difficulties, it's very inspiring to see how the Kurds, the Arab Sunnis and the Shiites are coming together here, how they're jointly defining the basis on which their state is to be built, the political course this state will pursue and who is to receive which cabinet positions.”

“Bush humble foreign policy was hijacked into nation-building.”

Nations Policy Building Humble Foreign Policy Nation Building

Author:Ron Paul

“We want to make nation-building a people's movement.”

People Want Nations Movement Building Nation Building

Author:Narendra Modi

“Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be okay is persuasive, but it omits the fact that we weren't supposed to get involved in nation-building in Afghanistan.”

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Author:Michael Hastings

“Part of American leadership is making sure that we're doing nation building here at home. That will help us maintain the kind of American leadership that we need.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“One of the challenges over the last decade is America has done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and we've neglected, for example, developing our own economy, our own energy sectors, our own education system. And it's very hard for us to project leadership around the world when we're not doing what we need to do.”

“I think the American people recognize is after a decade of war it's time to do some nation building here at home. And what we can now do is free up some resources, to, for example, put Americans back to work, especially our veterans, rebuilding our roads, our bridges, our schools, making sure that, you know, our veterans are getting the care that they need when it comes to post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, making sure that the certifications that they need for good jobs of the future are in place.”

“As Commander in Chief, I will maintain the strongest military in the world, keep faith with our troops and go after those who would do us harm. But after a decade of war, I think we all recognize we've got to do some nation building here at home, rebuilding our roads, our bridges and especially caring for our Veterans who sacrificed so much for our freedom.”

“America does not need to continue to have regime change throughout the world, nation-building.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“I think the problem with John Bolton is he disagrees with President Trump's foreign policy. He would be closer to John McCain's foreign policy. John Bolton still believes the Iraq war was a good idea. He still believes that regime change is a good idea. He still believes that nation-building is a good idea.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.”

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Author:Ron Paul

“In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.”

War Nations Support Clear Greater Policy Building Significance Saddam Hussein Removal Nation Building

Author:Ron Paul

“As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.”

World Should Years Country Values Nations Building Election Policemen Nation Building

Author:Ron Paul

“President Obama and Democrats won a mandate to move us forward with jobs, healthcare reform, equality, and nation building here at home.”

Home Jobs Moving Nations President Building Democrat Reform President Obama Healthcare Mandates Nation Building Healthcare Reform

Author:Christine Pelosi

“Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.”

Done Humanity Nations Justice Deals Building Nationalism Patriotic Confined Nation Building

Author:Aberjhani

“If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road.”

“I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.”

“When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.”

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Author:Zaha Hadid

“We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success. We must therefore act together as a united people, for national reconciliation, for nation building, for the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world. Let freedom reign.”

“And this is an administration - we're not into nation-building, we're focused on justice. And we're going to get justice. It's going to take a while, probably. But I'm a patient man. Nothing will diminish my will and my determination - nothing.”

Men War Nations Justice Building Determination Patient Focused Administration Diminish Nation Building

Author:George W. Bush

“India is more than a sum of its contradictions, any truism about India can be contradicted with another truism. There is no fixed stereotype. But even thinking about India makes clear the immensity of the nation-building challenge.”

Thinking Nations Challenges Clear Building India Fixed Contradiction Stereotype Nation Building Immensity Truism

Author:Shashi Tharoor

“Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances, wars, religion. It is about memory and tradition and, at times, even about sex.”

Men War Nations Sex Memories Enemy Struggle Building Tradition Climate Agriculture Ecology Alliances Nation Building Friends And Enemies

Book:Choice Cuts

Source: Choice Cuts

“There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters are of that.”

War Nations President Numbers Wonder Support Growing Building Republican Iraq Engagement Nation Building Parameters

Author:Lamar Alexander

“I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.”

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Author:Rahm Emanuel

“WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence”

Humans Whole Together Nations Existence Building South South Africa Ethos Nation Building Citizenry

Author:Steven Biko

“The first and most important component in nation building is LAW. Law is the source of national Cohesion.”

Firsts Important Law Nations Building Source Components Nation Building Cohesion

Author:Myles Munroe