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The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than read more
The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy read more
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on read more
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is read more
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated read more
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.
In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is read more
In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count read more
We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it