"We view our Nation's strength and security as a trust, upon which rests the hope of free men everywhere."
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"Israel has its own right as a nation to defend its national security."
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"I'm a one-nation Tory."
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"Education is a nation's cheapest defence"
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"A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered."
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"It is bad for a nation when it is without faith."
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"A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file."
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"Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is."
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"We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital."
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"A nation never falls but by suicide."
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"His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure."
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"It is character that counts in a nation as in a man."
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"Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations."
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"We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear."
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"Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will."
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"Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say."
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"It's just so weird when an entire nation knows what you are going through."
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"England is an aquarium, not a nation."
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"A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity."
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"Through the history of our nation, Americans have always extended their hands in gestures of assistance."
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