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“They took care to represent government as a thing made up of mysteries, which only themselves understood, and they hid from the understanding of the nation, the only thing that was beneficial to know, namely, that government is nothing more than a national association acting on the principles of society.”

Knows Made Government Care Political Politics Nations Understanding Acting Principles Mystery Understood Association Beneficial

Book:Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

“There is a long and honorable tradition of citizens in service to their nation that goes back at least as far as Cincinnatus, the Roman citizen who, more than once answered his country's call, then returned to his farm and his family and his work.”

Long Country Political Politics Nations Term Citizens Tradition Farms Honorable Term Limits

Book:Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

Source: Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

“Our nations are so close yet such a visit took 17 years. This will change & we will strengthen India-Nepal ties.”

Years Politics Nations India Ties Nepal

Author:Narendra Modi

“The real challenge is figuring out how the United States can regain control of its future from its new oligarchy and restore its position as a prosperous, fair, well-educated nation. For if we don't, the current pattern of great concentration of wealth and power will worsen, and we may face the steady immiseration of most of the American population.”

“In other words, RBS had its origins in a failed speculation, a bail-out, and a financial crash so big it helped destroy Scotland's status as a separate nation.”

Bigs Political Politics Nations Financial Crash Scotland Speculation Bail

Author:John Lanchester

“It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different character; it would be more extensive and more mild; it would degrade men without tormenting them. I do not question that, in an age of instruction and equality like our own, sovereigns might more easily succeed in collecting all political power into their own hands and might interfere more habitually and decidedly with the circle of private interests than any sovereign of antiquity could ever do.”

Source: Democracy in America - Vol. I. and II.

“A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane.”

Long Doe States Done Political Spirit Politics Nations Taken Growing Mad Insane Things Done Extravagant

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.”

People Politics Nations Fire Adversity International Relations Forged

Author:John Adams

“Suppose a nation, rich and poor, high and low, ten millions in number, all assembled together; not more than one or two millions will have lands, houses, or any personal property; if we take into the account the women and children, or even if we leave them out of the question, a great majority of every nation is wholly destitute of property, except a small quantity of clothes, and a few trifles of other movables.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.”

Sometimes Political Politics Nations Great Nations Misconduct

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.”

Politics Nations United Common Hatred Neighbor Patriotism Nationalism Delusion Neighbour Ancestry Patriotism And Nationalism

Author:William Ralph Inge

“There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.”

Wells Law Politics Nations Rage Appetite Curb

Book:Troilus and Cressida

Source: Troilus and Cressida

“An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.”

Men Politics Nations Argument Towns Meetings Association Quarrels

Book:Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962

“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.”

Men Motivational Spiritual Spirituality Politics Nations Plans Produce Civilization Black History Modern Civilization Spiritual Death

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

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Book:The Portable Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln

“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.”

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