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"France will always be a great nation."
"Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea."
"A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization."
"Non-co-operation is a nation's determination to improve."
"National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being."
"Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward."
"Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years."
"No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation."
"No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators."
"A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within."
"India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise."
"My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time."
"Let us join hands and build a truly South African nation."
"This nation asks for action, and action now."
"A nation is the same people living in the same place."
"A nation may be ever so civilized and yet lack wisdom."
"Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world."
"The English are a nation of consummate cant."
"By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed."