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Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be read more
Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen
No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you read more
No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the read more
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell
No nation has friends only interests
No nation has friends only interests
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the read more
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .
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.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet read more
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
